{"id":1397,"date":"2011-12-16T15:23:56","date_gmt":"2011-12-16T21:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cookcountypd.org\/blog\/?p=1397"},"modified":"2011-12-25T12:03:22","modified_gmt":"2011-12-25T18:03:22","slug":"jason-lee-wins-29th-jack-carey-memorial-scholarship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/2011\/12\/16\/jason-lee-wins-29th-jack-carey-memorial-scholarship\/","title":{"rendered":"Jason Lee wins 29th Jack Carey Memorial Scholarship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cookcountypd.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/jason-lee.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-1398\" title=\"jason lee\" src=\"http:\/\/cookcountypd.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/jason-lee-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to Jason Lee, a DePaul Law student expected to graduate in May, 2012.\u00a0 Jason is the 29th recipient of the scholarship named in memory of Local 3315&#8217;s former president, John T. (&#8220;Jack&#8221;) Carey.\u00a0 Jason was awarded the $2500 scholarship for the Spring of 2012 and is currently clerking for brother William Woelkers who is assigned to the Honorable James B. Linn&#8217;s courtroom.<\/p>\n<p>As a 711 law student in Judge Linn&#8217;s courtroom, Jason has litigated three jury trials, including an Armed Robbery and has also tried four bench trials including Attempt Murder.\u00a0 He has opened, closed and done both direct and cross of various witnesses in those trials and has participated in voir dire.\u00a0 In addition, he drafted a motion for JNOV in a natural life, predatory criminal sexual assault case that was GRANTED.<\/p>\n<p>Jason has been volunteering as a clerk \u00a0in the office since January of 2011 and put in 40 hours a week during the summer.\u00a0 In addition to working for Willam Woelkers, he also assisted his partner, Patrick White, filing and arguing motions to quash arrest and suppress evidence and preparing and presenting an alibi witness in an attempt murder case.<\/p>\n<p>On behalf of the Local and the selection committee of the scholarship fund, well done, Jason!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Jason Lee, a DePaul Law student expected to graduate in May, 2012.\u00a0 Jason is the 29th recipient of the scholarship named in memory of Local 3315&#8217;s former president, John T. (&#8220;Jack&#8221;) Carey.\u00a0 Jason was awarded the $2500 scholarship for the Spring of 2012 and is currently clerking for brother William Woelkers who is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}