Legal Question in Criminal Law in New York

Re: felons

The answer is yes. Go to the following site below. You may have to pay for a copy of the article due to its age, but it is very informative.

I've included text from the beginning of the article. Good Luck.

Tanya Robinson, Esq.

Miss Robinson can be seen commenting on a live murder trial on Court TV�s show Courtside this Friday October, 6, 2006 at 1pm. Check your local listings.

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New York Daily News - http://www.nydailynews.com/08-20-2006/news/v-pfriendly/story/444989p-374762c.html

Ex-cons ply other side of law by practicing it BY THOMAS ZAMBITODAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Sunday, August 20th, 2006

A convicted killer, a prostitute, drug dealers and common thieves. Sound like a cell block on Rikers Island? Try a meeting of members of the New York state bar. Dozens of felons are working as lawyers throughout New York, gaining redemption working in the field that once judged them unfit for society, a Daily News investigation has found.

Richard Langone served 13 years in New York state prisons for the 1974 slaying of a Rosedale, Queens, teen, committed out of jealousy during a drug-fueled rage over a girl. Langone killed 17-year-old Peter Miller with three shots from a .38-caliber pistol. In prison, he turned jailhouse lawyer, helped fellow inmates with their cases - and when he got out in 1990, he applied to be admitted to the bar. He was rejected three times, but was finally admitted last year, becoming the first convicted killer in state history to be admitted as a lawyer....