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N 2002, WHEN I WAS 23 years old, the career I'd always wanted looked to be over before it even started. One night in Michigan, after a bartender cut me off from tipping back way too many whiskeys, I proceeded to tear his bar apart. Malicious destruc tion of property, as it turns out, is a felony in the state. I had long wanted to be a lawyer. When I asked the court-appointed attorney representing me if he thought that was still possible,