Ben Aldana: From Convict to Public Defender
Top of Mind with Julie Rose - Season 1, Episode 809 , Segment 2
Immigration Enforcement Crackdown, From Convict to Public Defender, DNA Databases and Crime Solving
Episode: Immigration Enforcement Crackdown, From Convict to Public Defender, DNA Databases and Crime Solving
- May 10, 2018 11:00 pm
- 18:48 mins
Guest: Ben Aldana, JD, Utah County Public Defender’s Office, Recent Graduate of J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University One of the newest graduates of BYU’s Law School took a highly unusual path. Ben Aldana spent six years in prison on felony drug charges. Now he’s about to take the bar exam and become a public defender in Utah County, working in the same courtrooms he passed through as a very troubled teenager.
