What Happened To Me Essay

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I recently spoke with your office about what happened to me at the California Bar after I received a defective bar exam booklet during the timed examination. I became encouraged to write you for help or relief during that conversation. Enclosed is a copy of my letter to Governor Brown in which I briefly explain the unconscionable and openly discriminatory behavior that must cease, as we move beyond that style of leadership. What started out as an expansion of my education morphed into taunting and punishment of horrific proportions that still plague me today. The facts surrounding my defective bar examination booklet are indisputable, yet the Director of Admissions has found a way to blame me for not passing the defective exam. Her willful acts have banned me from law school and have …show more content…

Enough is truly enough! A Business and Professions Code designed to protect consumers like me from predatory law schools are instead being used to punish me. In my circumstances, it is adding a minimum of 3 more years to my law school requirement, and I did nothing wrong. As the Chair of the Judiciary Committee and educator, you understand more than many the importance of education in breaking the cycles of poverty and I must get back to my law school free from encumbrances designed to break me and my spirit as I have not heard back yet from Governor Brown or his office. In light of these facts, and in the interest of justice, I am respectfully requesting that I be allowed to continue my legal education effective immediately or in the alternative, any other remedy you think is in the best interest of justice.

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