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Letters: Don’t give Stephen Glass a law license

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Re “Stephen Glass’ fragile dream,” Column One, July 4

As a member in good standing of the state bar of California, your article about Stephen Glass made my blood boil.

The overwhelming majority of California lawyers are honest individuals who suffer the brickbats about lawyers because of the misdeeds and crimes of a few. The last thing we need is to admit a habitual liar. There are many people who have suffered considerably worse treatment than the upbringing that Glass blames for his journalistic fabrications, and yet have never engaged in fraudulent behavior.

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Being a lawyer is a privilege, not a right. It is a privilege Glass forfeited with his past dishonesty and more recent lack of candor: “Glass had not disclosed all his fabrications until his California application and had inaccurately told the New York bar he had helped all the magazines identify his falsehoods.”

He does not deserve any further consideration from the California Supreme Court.

Angela M. Sousa

Los Angeles

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