First Short Quiz – The Case of Isaac Wright Jr.

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IMPORTANT NOTE –

This Quiz was composed before obtaining my copy of “Marked for Life.” The Questions and their Suggested Answers are based on other reputable sources.


1. Was Isaac Wright Jr. born 1/23/1962 into a career military family?

2. By 1989, had Isaac Wright Jr. not only founded his own group (Uptown Express), become a talent manager, owned an independent record label (X-Press Records), and co-founded with his wife Sunshine Wright a platinum selling group (The Cover Girls)?

3. Had he and Sunshine settled in a New Jersey suburb of NYC to raise their six-year-old daughter, Tikealla S. Wright?

4. In 1989, was he arrested and charged with being the mastermind behind one of the largest drug-distribution networks in the NYC metropolitan area? Was he convicted in 1991 and sentenced to life in prison under New Jersey’s “Drug Kingpin” statute (as well as 72 years on other charges)?

5. Did Sunshine divorce him in 1991?

6. While in prison, did Isaac Wright Jr., realizing that nobody would materialize to save him, become a self-taught legal expert who helped to overturn wrongful convictions of 20 of his fellow inmates before finally proving his own innocence in 1996?

7. Did Isaac Wright Jr. prove that Nicholas L. Bissell Jr. who had prosecuted Wright, had directed police officers to falsify reports while personally dictating the false testimony against Wright? Did Bissell also make secret deals with defense attorneys to have their clients lie to the jury that Wright was their boss?

8. Did Prosecutor Bissell, upon learning that one of the police officers had confessed, take flight and then commit suicide when the police tried to arrest him?

9. Was Wright’s trial judge, Michael Imbriani, who concealed Bisssell’s secret deals with illegal sentencing schemes, removed from the bench and incarcerated (though the incarceration was on unrelated theft charges)?

10. Did Isaac Wright Jr. then decide that his true calling in life was to become a defense attorney representing the wrongfully accused – particularly the Black community and the poor?

11. After obtaining his B.A. and J.D., did he then join the Newark NJ law firm of Hunt Hamlin & Ridley whose website describes the firm as “the largest African-American owned law firm in the State of New Jersey with a wide range of expertise and skilled lawyers on staff to handle many types of legal matters”?

12. Despite passing the New Jersey Bar Exam in 2008, did the N.J. Bar Association’s Character Committee spend 9 years investigating him before permitting his admission to practice law?

13. Did the Bar Association Character Committee’s approval after 9 years coincide with the 2017 announcement that Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson (who has sold over 30 million albums and been ranked by Billboard as the third-best rapper behind Eminem, who discovered “50 Cent”, and Nelly) would produce a TV series based on Isaac’s life?

14. Did that TV series entitled “For Life” air on ABC for two seasons 2020-2021?

15. BTW, had “50 Cent” met Isaac Wright Jr. in 2016 when Wright was a practicing attorney? Did the New York Post (https://nypost.com/2020/02/11/meet-the- ... -for-life/) report that –

“[50 Cent had been] invited to perform at an illegal fight club in the Bronx. Jackson was hesitant; he risked losing his promoter’s license if he performed there and somebody posted a video to YouTube. ‘They went through several lawyers and a lot of money and nobody could help them,’ says Wright, who was brought in on the recommendation of a friend. He succeeded in making the club legal and 50 Cent performed there. Wright and Jackson got to know each other and Jackson learned his life story.”

16. Does our website feature each month a section entitled “Reference Materials” which traditionally includes, inter alia, book reviews of our focus book by the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post?

17. Did none of them review “Marked for Life” – presumably because this is a “cart before the horse” situation with “For Life” airing on ABC 2020-2021 and “Marked for Life” not being published until 11/8/2022 – with the NYT and WaPo already having reviewed “For Life”?

18. BTW, among the zillions of reviews of “For Life,” did the American Bar Association Journal contain a review dated 3/12/2020 and entitled “ABC’s ‘For Life’ Reminds Us Of A Life Sentence’s Severity?

19. Does the American Bar Association Journal’s article even attempt to address the severity of a death sentence in a wrongful-conviction case?

20. BTW, did our 3/16/2016 meeting 7 years ago cover many of the same issues as “Marked for Life” when our focus book was “Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption” by NYU Law Professor Bryan Stevenson who is/was the founder and director of the Equal Justice Initiative, a nonprofit organization with, currently, a staff of 77 providing, inter alia, legal representation to indigent defendants and prisoners denied fair and just treatment in the legal system?

21. Did our 3/16/2016 “Suggested Discussion Outline” website section contain not only a Suggested Discussion Outline with 852 views to date, but also a “Murder By Gun vs. Murder By Judicial System = A Difference?” posting with 2,288 views to date?

22. Did our 3/16/2016 meeting consider launching one of our “Six Degrees of Separation” E-mail Campaigns to put “Murder by Judicial System” on a par with “Murder by Gun”?

23. Did that proposal fail to meet our standards (no more than one dissent with a minimum meeting quorum of 6) because two attorneys participating in the meeting thought that if the prosecutors or other miscreants lost their jobs, that would comprise sufficient punishment?

24. In the light of Isaac Wright Jr’s case, should we re-visit this proposal?

25. BTW, isn’t it appropriate that Isaac’s lawless prosecutor committed suicide as a result of his misdeeds?

26. Though hasn’t the Judge, Michael Imbriani, who concealed the prosecutor’s secret deals with illegal sentencing schemes, been insufficiently punished by simply being removed from the bench (since he was incarcerated on unrelated theft charges)?