The show is loosely based on the life of Isaac Wright Jr., a former inmate who got his wrongful conviction overturned and became a licensed attorney
in New Jersey with leading a drug trafficking network, possession of cocaine with intent to distribute, maintaining or operating a narcotics production facility, and conspiracy to distribute cocaine.. Though he’d “never been through the system before,” he had little faith in it from get-go.
“I knew early on that I was going to prison for the rest of my life and that there was nothing that no one was going to be able to do to help me,” he told the magazine. “Even on the witness stand at trial, there were people up there and I had no clue who they were. I had never seen them a day in my life and they were pointing the finger at me saying that I was their boss.”“I wasn’t going to pay somebody to send me to prison,” he told the magazine.
In 1991, he was found guilty by a jury of all charges. He received a life sentence and was ordered to serve at least 30 years before becoming eligible for parole.against the state and several law enforcement agencies and employees, including the Somerset County Prosecutor, Nicholas Bissell, who had developed a national reputation for his aggressive assault on drug dealers. Wright argued that he was a victim of prosecutorial misconduct by Bissell and some of his detectives.
Wright continued working on his own case — while Bissell’s story took a sharp turn. In May 1996, the former prosecutor wasTwo days before he was supposed to be sentenced, Bissell, who was under house arrest, cut off his electronic monitoring bracelet and went on the run. When authorities found him in a Nevada hotel room, heBissell’s downfall and exposed corruption shined a new light on Wright’s case.
The judge ordered a new trial for Wright, and the new prosecutor decided to delay his retrial “indefinitely.” Wright was freed on bail on Dec. 17, 1996, for the first time in seven years., and the indictment against him was dismissed without prejudice.According to , after his release, Wright completed college and then law school. Today, he reportedly works with New Jersey law firm Hunt, Hamlin and Ridley as a general practitioner who specializes in criminal law.
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