I haven't been following the Malhuer case that closely lately so I am a little behind on who the new lawyers are.
One of them is Marcus Mumford. Here is an article on him:
Stuttering lawyer alumnus speaks out
October 31st, 2010 Posted in Arts and Life
Story by Alex Thatcher
http://hardnewscafe.usu.edu/?p=3003
LOGANFor someone who has struggled all his life with stuttering, Utah State alumnus Marcus Mumford had no problem expressing himself Friday to an audience of about 150 students and faculty at the David B. Haight Alumni Center.
Mumford, the stuttering lawyer, captivated the audience with his life story of coping with stuttering, particularly during his law career. The 1996 USU philosophy graduate and Salt Lake City attorney was on campus as part of the College of Humanities & Social Sciences Alumni Lecture Series.
Mumford, who grew up on an Idaho dairy farm, was diagnosed with stuttering as a 4-year-old. His parents didnt show much sympathy, he said, and once sent him out to sell Boy Scout cookies. I came home without selling one cookie, he said. I hardly even managed to get a word out. But my mom was gutsy and she made me go right back out and try selling again. The second time, I sold them all. This was the first step I took in my life toward becoming one who acts and is not just acted upon.
Mumford used a cartoon of three different baseball umpires to illustrate the larger issues underlying his message. The first umpire says, I call em as they are. The second: I call em as I see em. And the third says, They aint nothing till I call em.
There are very few things in life that are unchangeable and can be considered absolute truth, Mumford explained. There are few things that are as they are.
Everything else is left for us to interpret, said Mumford. I call this the Philosophy of Science.
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