Once-homeless University of Chicago law grad getting treatment, hopes to return to law practice

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Once-homeless University of Chicago law grad getting treatment, hopes to return to law practice

March 19, 2025, 12:41 pm CDT

A University of Chicago Law School graduate who lived for two years on the streets of Los Angeles has moved back home with his mother in Virginia and hopes to resume law practice. (Image from Shutterstock)

A University of Chicago Law School graduate who lived for two years on the streets of Los Angeles has moved back home with his mother in Virginia and hopes to resume law practice.

Rob Dart moved home in January and has been taking anti-psychotic medication for more than three months, the Wall Street Journal reports. He is taking online continuing legal education classes and hopes to regain his law license.

The Wall Street Journal had chronicled efforts by Dart’s family to help him in articles published this month and in May 2024. He began hearing voices when he was 35 years old and returned to his mother’s home at that time. He received medication and therapy for two years but quit treatment in 2022 during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Dart ended up homeless in Los Angeles. His sister and mother had traveled to California to try to help him, but he often rejected them.

The Wall Street Journal’s coverage spurred some people to offer help. One reader set up a tab for Dart at a coffee shop. Another connected Dart’s family with a psychiatrist affiliated with a Pasadena, California, hospital who said he would treat Dart when he was willing to accept help.

Late last year, Dart began treatment at the hospital. But during the wildfires in Los Angeles earlier this year, Dart successfully petitioned for release. Days later, he agreed to return to his mother’s home and began treatment.

Online records indicate that Dart was admitted to law practice in Illinois in 2004 and in California in 2009. He was suspended in California for failure to meet state CLE requirements in 2022 and for failure to pay fees in 2023. He also failed to show compliance with Illinois CLE requirements and was last registered there in 2022.

Dart’s last registered address with Illinois attorney regulators was at the Wilshire Law Firm in Los Angeles.

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Steve Bannon cites law Trump signed in hopes of prison exit

homesafetytechpros — Fri, 13 Sep 2024 16:23:10 +0000

Steve Bannon speaks outside Danbury Federal Correctional Institution in Danbury, Conn., in July 2024 as Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., left, listens (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson).

One day after federal prosecutors said his arguments in favor of an early prison exit were “footless,” former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon is trying to “take advantage” of the First Step Act, criminal justice reform signed into law and “championed” by then President Donald Trump, in a bid for some leniency on his punishment for the “non-violent” offense of stonewalling the Jan. 6 Committee.

The Friday reply from Bannon, which comes weeks after he asked U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols to reimpose bail pending appeal based on “significant events,” reiterated that the federal inmate’s contempt of Congress stint behind bars should end before Election Day.

But in the event that Nichols doesn’t want to go that far, Bannon alternatively proposed a “brief period of supervised release, in conjunction with a brief sentence reduction if necessary,” so he “could take advantage of First Step Act earned-time credits available to nearly every other inmate serving time for non-violent offenses.”

“Having to wait thirty days for the BOP to refuse to seek such relief, as the government insists here, would force Mr. Bannon to wait for nearly the entirety of the remainder of his sentence—time that he could otherwise serve on supervised release under the First Step Act,” the reply said. “Having to wait to exhaust BOP remedies would thus effectively preclude Mr. Bannon from being able to obtain any meaningful relief from this Court.”

Bannon was convicted by a jury in July 2022 on two counts of contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena for documents and a deposition, and he was subsequently sentenced to four months in prison. At first, Nichols allowed Bannon to remain free as he appealed his sentence and conviction. When the Supreme Court declined to stop Bannon’s incarceration, however, Bannon spoke outside of prison walls in Connecticut on July 1 and declared, “I’m proud to go to prison.”

On Thursday, federal prosecutors called the bail or supervised release asks baseless.

“The defendant shows no basis for the Court to reverse its earlier ruling lifting the stay of his sentence, a ruling that both the D.C. Circuit and the Supreme Court have effectively endorsed,” prosecutors said. “He also fails to justify modifying his sentence to impose a period of supervised release.”

Prosecutors, writing that Bannon “fails to overcome the presumption of detention pending appeal” and provided Nichols no reason to disturb his prior ruling based on the hope that maybe the whole U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit will rehear Bannon’s case.

“There is no basis to conclude from the pendency of the defendant’s rehearing petition that it is ‘very likely’ the D. C. Circuit will either grant rehearing en banc or deny rehearing with a dissent,” the government said. “The defendant shows no basis to assume that the D.C. Circuit is not simply dealing with a heavy workload after a summer recess and certainly offers no support for his speculation that he will receive rehearing en banc.”

“At bottom, the defendant’s attempt to ‘read tea leaves’ does not establish any basis for the Court to release a defendant whom this Court, the D.C. Circuit, and the Supreme Court have ruled must be detained,” prosecutors added.

Bureau of Prison records show that Bannon, 70, is slated to be released from FCI Danbury on Oct. 29.

Colin Kalmbacher and Marisa Sarnoff contributed to this report.

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