The odds were against William Wooden when he filed a petition with the U.S. Supreme Court from an Arkansas federal prison last summer without the help of a lawyer.
Fast forward to this week, and Wooden now has a chance at freedom earlier than scheduled, after Supreme Court lawyers with Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer stepped in and helped convince the justices to hear his pro se appeal.
“It took most of today to reach him to let him know that the Supreme Court has agreed to grant his case,” firm partner Allon Kedem told Bloomberg Law Monday. “He was ...
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