Roy Black is a civil and criminal defense trial attorney who has represented an American financier and registered sex offender who served how many months in prision for his conviction of soliciting an underage girl for prostitution?
Roy Black (attorney) Roy Black (born February 17, 1945 in New York City) is a civil and criminal defense trial attorney. He is best known for his gaining an acquittal, in 1991, of William Kennedy Smith on charges of rape and for his representation of conservative radio commentator Rush Limbaugh. Other celebrities whom Black has represented include actor Kelsey Grammer, racer Hélio Castroneves, "Girls Gone Wild" creator Joe Francis, artist Peter Max, billionaire Jeffrey Epstein, and Justin Bieber. Black is also informally referred to by his nickname, "The Professor."
Twelve Years a Slave Twelve Years a Slave is an 1853 memoir and slave narrative by American Solomon Northup as told to and edited by David Wilson. Northup, a black man who was born free in New York state, details his being tricked to go to Washington, D.C., where he was kidnapped and sold into slavery in the Deep South. He was in bondage for 12 years in Louisiana before he was able to secretly get information to friends and family in New York, who in turn secured his release with the aid of the state. Northup's account provides extensive details on the slave markets in Washington, D.C. and New Orleans, and describes at length cotton and sugar cultivation and slave treatment on major plantations in Louisiana.