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Norm Pattis used to receive a hate letter once a year from an elderly woman in California. Incensed over a $2 million award the criminal defense lawyer had won for a convicted rapist and murderer injured by guards during a prison escape attempt, the woman would excoriate him and wish a painful death on him and his family.
Most people would be disturbed. Not Pattis. For him, the letters were a badge of honor. “I framed one of them,” Pattis says. “I figured if I was...

Nestled between a pasture of grazing horses and a stretch of woods in the town of Bethany sit two barns, each with a sign posted above the front door: “Set yourself free.”
Norm Pattis, a New Haven-based defense attorney, put those signs up in 2005 when he bought — and thus saved — Whitlock’s Book Barn.
“A book, for me, has always been the key to salvation,” Pattis says as he stands beneath that sign in the main barn. “A bookstore is a...

Nestled between a pasture of grazing horses and a stretch of woods in the town of Bethany sit two barns, each with a sign posted above the front door: “Set yourself free.”
Norm Pattis, a New Haven-based defense attorney, put those signs up in 2005 when he bought — and thus saved — Whitlock’s Book Barn.
“A book, for me, has always been the key to salvation,” Pattis says as he stands beneath that sign in the main barn. “A bookstore is a...