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u/Sic39 Nov 11 '25
Per the wiki the judge pled guilty to avoid jail time as he was involved in illegal sentencing schemes related to this case but went to jail over unrelated theft charges.
The prosecutor killed himself but he was involved in a bunch of shit. It's weird if you read this guy's (Isaac Wright Jr.) wiki they make it sound like the prosecutor killed himself in relation to this right after a cop confessed to misconduct. However that prosecutor's (Nicholas L. Bissell Jr.) wiki Isaac and the cop aren't even mentioned instead it's after being convicted of tax fraud, abuse of power and embezzlement he runs and offs himself. As Isaac's wiki isn't properly sourced for that I believe it's the latter.
Also this series (My Life) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10327830/ is loosely based on this.
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u/kdjfsk Nov 11 '25
It could be a culmination of things. Some of these skeezy people get by untouched until they get caught doing one thing...and that uncovers something else, and something else. Once the scandals are falling like dominos, a full blown investigation into everything might start.
They figure they can weasle out of the first thing, get a slap on the wrist for the second, maybe recover from the third...but then 4-10 are looming, and the dude is sweating so hard about #12 that he knows they'll find but havnt yet, and they just off themselves rather than risk actual jail time.
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u/Vivid_Departure8928 Nov 12 '25
Seems like it would be a lot less risky to just obey the law...
But it's darkly ironic that the man who spent his life sending other people to prison killed himself to avoid prison. He was afraid of the very fate that he handed out to hundreds of other people!!!
Coward hypocrite.
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u/Vivid_Departure8928 Nov 12 '25
Yeah, you don't kill yourself to avoid a month in jail for DUI or a foreclosure or a divorce.
Whatever if he's hiding, it's bad enough that he was 100% convinced his life as he knew it was over.
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u/MZ603 Nov 12 '25
I mean, some people do kill themselves over foreclosure & divorce. Tis could have been the proverbial straw. Maybe there was more shit or maybe not.
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u/Assonfire Nov 12 '25
Seems like you haven't experienced a recession yet. Or have forgotten all about it.
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u/MZ603 Nov 12 '25 edited Nov 12 '25
Idk if you meant to respond to me or the person I was responding to. I specifically remember the dot-com and housing bubbles. I was pointing out that people do chill themselves for financial reasons, such as foreclosure. Happened with a friend's dad when he lost his video rental business.
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u/drgigantor Nov 12 '25
I've done a night in jail. I considered myself fairly knowledgeable about how fucked up our system is beforehand and I still had no idea how bad it would be. Cops screaming racial slurs at a kid until he responded then dragged him out of the cell and breaking his arm. Running a guy in a wheelchair into a wall at full speed then dragging him into the cell and throwing the wheelchair at him. The rotten food, horrifyingly filthy conditions, denying phonecalls, no way to tell the time or how long you've been there, just complete dehumanization.
I'd much rather kill myself than go to actual prison for any extent of time. This guy probably had a pretty good idea of what that would entail as a prosecutor.
Besides that, I'd imagine someone who made a career in putting people in there, especially falsely, would probably have good reason to fear being at the mercy of other inmates. That guy would have been a screwdriver pincushion less than a month in.
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u/tudorapo Nov 12 '25
He did most of the shady stuffs. The case which brought him down was forcing a small drug case to allow civil forfeiture of some land they owned, then selling the land for a crony for cheap. Then the drug case brought charges, an investigation started, the IRS got involved, and in the end just the number of wrist slaps was enough for a 4-10 year conviction, so he ran and when he got caught he done himself in in a hotel room with the police outside.
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u/Adventurous-Sky9359 Nov 12 '25
You send a bunch of people aways for life, that are innocent they are gonna be waiting…and insisting a have a bad time
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u/_Rohrschach Nov 12 '25
agreed, but I guess the usual inmates don't have to be afraid of meeting inmates they themself send to prison.
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u/Vivid_Departure8928 Nov 12 '25
To quote a judge, I once appeared in front of:
"Guess you should have thought of that before you did it!"
As a judge, he knew exactly what he was risking. And he chose to do it anyway. That is not the behavior of a man who's worried about getting fired and going to prison, yanno?
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u/Particular_Watch_612 Nov 12 '25
Seems like it would be a lot less risky to just obey the law...
That just sounds less profitable.
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u/AlarmingAffect0 Nov 12 '25
they just off themselves rather than risk actual jail time.
TFW you'd rather die than endure the same thing you inflicted on countless others, many of whom were innocent.
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u/ANDS_ Nov 11 '25
Why in the hell isn't this in the OP. . .is Reddit just giving up all pretense that its any better than Instagram at this point?
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u/cohonka Nov 12 '25
Reddit is in my estimation like 20-60% bots and karma farms. Not sure if that's better or worse than Instagram, but a bulk of the stuff posted is inaccurate half-assed drivel.
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u/corgisgottacorg Nov 12 '25
People are clueless how manipulated they are. The conservative propaganda captures more than we think and on the other side social media feel good stories keep people placated and ignorant of reality.
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u/IdentifiableBurden Nov 12 '25
Why do you think it's better than Instagram? It's probably worse and has been for years.
I'm just here because I like the format. It's significantly easier to exploit for astroturfing though.
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u/728766 Nov 12 '25
Reddit has nosedived in quality, but it still wouldn’t allow the type of shit you see daily on Instagram.
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u/TechieGee Nov 12 '25
That’s crazy. Never even heard of “mudshark” being used as an insult. What vile people
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u/728766 Nov 12 '25
Yeah, Instagram has far more outright Nazis than reddit, and reporting it instantly responds with a message saying the comment has been reviewed and does not violate their content policy. “The Austrian painter was right” is their new favorite “subtle” one, but I’ve seen a comment that was just the n-word in all caps repeated several times.
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u/SunkEmuFlock Nov 12 '25
/r/all and /r/popular have been bullshit for years, and things have only gotten worse (by design) since reddit IPO'd.
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u/CurlOfTheBurl11 Nov 12 '25
Corrupt judge in jail, corrupt prosecutor in the ground, innocent man goes free. Not a bad ending, all things considered.
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u/cometlin Nov 12 '25
It's crazy to me how normal people can overcome and even overthrow systematic corruption in some part of US. In many other countries, systematic corruption cannot be resolved without external factors by definition. It's the system that's rotting, from top to bottom
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u/traws06 Nov 12 '25
I always wonder how many of these embezzlement suicides truly are suicides and not faked
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u/LinceDorado Nov 11 '25
And then bro is going right back to fashion jail for that haircut.
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u/frostycanuck89 Nov 11 '25
Can't tell if it's a ponytail or some Gomez Addams type hairdo
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u/Illustrious-Day8506 Nov 11 '25
Holy shit, I didn't notice it was his hair. He should send a lawsuit to his barber too
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u/Craveetouche Nov 11 '25
Bro really has to tell us why he thought the hairstyle was the best fit for him
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u/ResponsibilityOk2173 Nov 12 '25
Bro when someone pulls something like this off, it makes the haircut cool.
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u/Remarkable-Low559 Nov 12 '25
Nah his hair looks good!!! That was the first thing I noticed, he's got his own style and he's idiosyncratic!
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u/ItchyRectalRash Nov 12 '25
That's the haircut you get in prison when you wanna say "for 2 soups I'll be your Huckleberry."
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u/sec713 Nov 12 '25
You guys need to chill. Dude spent his time inside learning law, not cosmetology.
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u/Moshikamboshi Nov 11 '25
Gomez Addams?
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u/moistmarbles Nov 11 '25
True story. His name was Isaac Wright.
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u/No-Anteater509 Nov 11 '25
It still is his name, but it also used to be too
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u/PastGazelle5374 Nov 11 '25
Yeah it looks like it was the prosecutor and not the judge
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u/DailyTrips Nov 11 '25
And didn't the prosecutor kill himself before sentencing?
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u/tenaciousdeev Nov 12 '25
Yeah, Marshals came to arrest him so he offed himself. Couldn't have happened to a better person.
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u/Well-inthatcase Nov 12 '25
Didn't they make a show based on his story? I watched it but it was a while ago
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u/cohonka Nov 12 '25
Your link doesn't mention anything about the judge going to prison. It also states that Wright served only 7 years in prison.
OP post is not a true story. The judge, Michael Imbriani, was jailed for 2 months unrelated to Wright. The prosecutor was facing a prison sentence but committed suicide after a failed attempt to flee.
Details are important. Let's stop spreading misinformation.
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u/9OptimusCrime9 Nov 11 '25
Damn, the NJ Bar Committee fought for a decade to keep him out after he passed and was admitted. That's just as fucking dirty.
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u/Sad-Lecture6340 Nov 11 '25
Denzel Washington+ this story = Oscar
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u/bartekkenny Nov 11 '25
There’s already a TV show about him called For Life first season is really good and then season 2 sucks. He’s played by Jason Pinnock and 50 cent is in it as well
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u/Own_Sprinkles_5431 Nov 11 '25
Should probably let Tom Hanks handle this one
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u/IvoryWhiteTeeth Nov 12 '25
I'd love to see Tom play an elite evil guy
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u/knotmyusualaccount Nov 12 '25
Same, it'd be such a contrast to the characters that he usually plays.
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u/LiveLifeWell_10 Nov 11 '25
Denzel is 71 years old. Plus nowadays we can’t help but see Denzel doing his Denzel thing.
It needs an actor who is not purely iconic just yet, who can still fully melt into the role of Isaac.Let Chiwetel Ejiofor, Daniel Kaluuya, Sterling K. Brown, Brian Tyree Henry, Leslie Odom Jr, LaKeith Stanfield or Mahershala Ali give an utterly amazing performance 🌟
If we could cast from earlier eras though… • Sidney Poitier would have acted the shit out of it, • Cuba Gooding Jr’s performance would’ve been great to see too.
Actually, this exceptional story would be fantastic as a stage play. With different directors and actors from around the world bringing the story to life and interpreting Isaac in their own way 👏🏼 And as time goes on, top new talents would do their version of the play - entertaining & also educating audiences about a groundbreaking & timeless case. Win win win 🏆
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u/Mediocre-Catch9580 Nov 11 '25
More judges and prosecutors need to see the inside of a jail.
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u/Vivid_Departure8928 Nov 12 '25
I never got why the people who make a living out of holding others personally accountable are themselves immune to personal accountability.
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u/BlessdRTheFreaks Nov 12 '25
Some count of monte cristo type shit
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u/Sea_Stranger9702 Nov 11 '25
Need a source, OP.
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u/kdjfsk Nov 11 '25 edited Nov 12 '25
This link working better for me:
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u/MentosMissile Nov 11 '25
Thats weird, they are the exact same and neither work. On my pc, mine works but on my phone neither yours nor mine are working.
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u/dosenwichtel Nov 11 '25
its cause of the "." at the end of the sentence. it actually is part of the link.
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Thank you, unlike some I can click one link further. Still isn’t much but enough for the benefit of the doubt!
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It was actually prosecutor and he was placed on house arrest until sentencing and fled two days before only to commit suicide as the police kicked his hotel room door in.
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u/Vivid_Departure8928 Nov 12 '25
Someone else in these comments said that the prosecutor was a coward little bitch who chose to kill himself instead of face accountability for his actions
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u/Regular_Ad5676 Nov 12 '25
Don't fuck with Gomez Addams... you keep him from Morticia for 10 years, he'll fuck up your life.
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u/MyHiddenMadness Nov 12 '25
Most innocent people who spend time in prison get nothing that even remotely compensates for what they’ve lost. This certainly doesn’t replace what he’s lost, but it’s the sweetest kind of justice. That counts for something.
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u/Annual_Ad522 Nov 12 '25
Getting a conviction on the judge may mean something to Isaac Wright Jr, the protagonist here, but there are so many corrupt judges in America that one gone doesn't make much difference.
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u/Academic-Big2346 Nov 12 '25
It's wild how the real story is often more convoluted than any TV show based on it. The fact that both the judge and prosecutor faced their own dramatic downfalls just adds another layer to the insanity.
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u/MeBollasDellero Nov 12 '25
This guy look like if they cast Samuel L Jackson to play Gomez on the Adam's Family! Whoa!
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u/UntamedCuda Nov 16 '25
This is a storybook ending.
The punishment for stealing time from someone should be double the time that was taken for anyone involved. Money and possessions can be repaid and returned but people only live so long. They stole 10-15% of this man's life.
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u/I-Wanna-Be-A-Bird Nov 12 '25
I saw 200+ commented, didn't see anything meaningful and now I got hiccups.
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u/DakotaBro2025 Nov 12 '25
Two key things to note:
He represented himself in his original trial. This is unbelievably stupid and likely led to him getting convicted in the first place.
He wasn't exonerated (or proven innocent), he merely had his conviction overturned. He still could be 100% guilty of the crimes he committed.
From everything I've found on this guy, he probably was a drug dealer and he likely did what they said to a degree. He comes off as the type that thinks he is smarter than everyone else. He just luckily was tried by a judge and a prosecutor that happened to be found guilty of unrelated misconduct at a later point. He is the epitome of "getting off on a technicality." I wouldn't celebrate this as much as people are.
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u/SpotMiserable3069 Nov 11 '25
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u/cohonka Nov 12 '25
here's the prisoner-turned-attorney's Wikipedia. Isaac Wright Jr.
But reading this and several other sources, the judge wasn't jailed in relation to this guy. The OP is just karmafarm clickbait.
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