April 2014
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About Barry
Before I became a screenwriter I was a criminal defense lawyer in St. Paul, MN., and received recognition as a Super Lawyer (top 5% of the Bar), The Most Well-Prepared Lawyer (Minnesota District Court Judge's Survey), One of Minnesota's Top 40 Criminal Defense Lawyers and One of Minnesota's Top 50 Appellate Lawyers.
I was raised in the streets of St. Paul, became addicted to crime and drugs at a young age, and spent most of my teenage years in numerous juvenile and adult corrections institutions.
I began college and group-therapy while in St. Cloud Reformatory for Men for burglary., continued on the University of Minnesota campus, then law school and upon admission to the bar I started my law practice.
My screenplays are based on what I saw and experienced as a criminal and addict, inmate and criminal defense lawyer.
Unique traits: As a former addict and criminal, inmate and then a criminal defense attorney for 35 years, I have unique experiences in representing intriguing and colorful personalities in state and federal courts. They make for interesting characters and add flavor to my storylines.
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The Rondo Conspiracy Budget: $1M - $5M | Drama ⋄ Crime In the late fifties a resident lawyer of Rondo, primarily a Black community in St. Paul, must assist an evil cop hunt a killer through after-hours joints or be charged with murder. As his life unravels, he could save himself and Rondo when he learns the cop's stalking him and is in a conspiracy with St. Paul to destroy Rondo.
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A Taste of Cold Steel Budget: $1M - $5M | Crime ⋄ Drama A Chicago gangster's estranged and addicted son struggles to reunite with his psychopathic brother to get revenge against his immoral father. He's targeted for death, barely survives, gets revenge but loses more than he gains from vengeance.
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Judge, Me Budget: $1M - $5M | Drama ⋄ Crime Group-therapy prison inmates are given an opportunity to act as a jury and determine whether a reporter's expose' of a judge, who is to be elevated to the supreme court, should be published. As the inmates clash over therapy, power politics creeps in and soon they realize what they intuitively know: some people are beyond the law.
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Mitchell Hamline School of Law
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University of Minnesota
(1973-1975)
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