"While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom"
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His “undercover” posture is equally telling. Dash isn’t romanticizing vigilantism; he’s describing an improvised method for getting an honest look at institutions that know how to perform integrity when they’re being watched. By presenting himself as a “young law teacher,” he adopts a nonthreatening identity that invites candor. The subtext: corruption is so embedded at the lower-court level that a polite outsider can stumble into it without special access or dramatic risk. That’s worse than a conspiracy. It’s routine.
Context matters. Dash came of age in an era when public faith in institutions was being stress-tested by televised hearings, urban machine politics, and rising skepticism about “law and order” as a slogan. As a lawyer and legal educator, he’s also speaking to the gap between the classroom’s idealized rule-of-law story and the petty cash economy of arraignments and bail. The phrase “right in the courtroom” lands as indictment and diagnosis: when corruption becomes performative, accountability has already lost.
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Dash, Samuel. (2026, January 15). While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/while-teaching-i-also-worked-undercover-in-the-169700/
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Dash, Samuel. "While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom." FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/while-teaching-i-also-worked-undercover-in-the-169700/.
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"While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/while-teaching-i-also-worked-undercover-in-the-169700/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.
