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\u201cLet me see your search warrant,\u201d I said.  I was a first year law school student and knew my rights:  they couldn\u2019t enter without my permission or a search warrant.  (I also wanted to give everybody inside, especially my sister and the Voyage House staff, enough time to make sure they had ditched any and all contraband.)<\/p>\n

\u201cOut of the Way!\u201d this burly cop hollers and charges up my front stoop to knock the door in.  By then paddy wagons were starting to show up and I was the first one hand-cuffed and put in the back of a wagon.  Every single party attendee got arrested.  They even ran out of paddy wagons; I heard on the police scanner, \u201cWe\u2019ve got over a hundred to bring in, we need additional transport.\u201d<\/p>\n

When they finally brought the keg out, the Woodstock crowd cheered and laughed.  Later on I learned that there was no contraband to be found because everyone had enough time to smoke all the weed on the roof top before the cops got to the last arrests.  So one and all were having a grand time joking in the sardine-packed paddy wagons and then at police headquarters, 10 or 12 to a cell.  Everybody except me; my future at Voyage House being uncertain, much less my future in law school.<\/p>\n

The first thing I did once we were all locked up (they gave me a private cell where I couldn\u2019t talk to anyone), was ask to call my lawyer, which they let me do.  The Board Member who doubled as the Voyage House lawyer answered his phone.  He came right down.  \u201cListen,\u201d I said to him, \u201cI don\u2019t care what they charge me with, or how long they hold me \u2013 just try to get all these kids out without any charges.\u201d  To his great credit, and my ever lasting gratitude, that\u2019s what the lawyer was able to do.  I was released early the next morning charged with Keeping a Disorderly House and Underage Sales to a Minor.<\/p>\n

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The Voyage House Board never took any official action against me because the staff stuck up for me and explained this was actually part of being a successful streetworker, but the Voyage House lawyer said I had to get my own lawyer \u2013 he didn\u2019t do criminal work, and besides, he wasn\u2019t very sympathetic.  This led to my getting to know David Kairys and David Rudovsky, two of Philadelphia\u2019s greatest lawyers of all time.  Mr. Kairys was able to get me in the Accelerated Rehabilitation Disposition Program, and after I kept a clean record for a year, all charges were dismissed, and the law school didn\u2019t kick me out either.<\/p>\n

P.S. Fred and her friends made it home safe and sound, not too late to need parent explanations, and forever talk about what a great time they had.<\/p>\n

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