i appreciate your comments about marquette university. and i know it's very dear to your heart. in addition to being the prosecuting attorney for montgomery county, dayton ohio i am honored to be the chair of the criminal justice section of the american bar association which is a section of about 20,000 members which include the whole array of the partners of the criminal justice section and the criminal justice process in the american system. and that is judges, be defendants' lawyers, prosecutors, law professors and other law enforcement personnel. i appear today to talk about the aba's view you have collateral sanctions and how it relates to convictions and also highlight some of the things that the american bar association has done. as many of you know, the american legal system has long recognized that certain legal disabilities or collateral sanctions result from a criminal conviction in addition to a sentence. so there may be a prescribed sentence relating to a crime but attached there to may be collateral sanctions. or disabilities that are also imposed in addition to th

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