51�Թ�

The longtime Orange County public defender changed local history in 2013 when he presented a judge with evidence that sheriff’s deputies had illegally used jailhouse snitches for decades.

He did things that would be illegal today, Clark said, like planting the jailhouse informant who won Graham’s love and helped doom her.

Baker, however, said they did not discuss the killing over the years despite numerous jailhouse conversations.

In other contexts, courts identify the party as the problem rather than the order immediately at hand — for example, a “jailhouse lawyer” serving a life sentence in prison who endlessly files frivolous lawsuits.

He’s a talented thespian who also writes plays; a gentle man, a mentor and a self-described jailhouse lawyer who is preparing for his parole hearing.