What Attorney Stephen Heymann did to James and Schwartz is a very old story. I can't believe nobody has brought up the parallel yet, but this story is very much like Les Miserables. In "Les Mis," an ex-convict who decides to lead an upstanding life is dogged by an law enforcement officer who sees the ex-con's bending of the rules to help others as criminal.

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