Ben Aldana: From Convict to Public Defender

Guest: Ben Aldana, JD, Utah County Public Defender’s Office, Recent Graduate of J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University One of the newest graduates of BYU’s Law School took a highly unusual path. Ben Aldana spent six years in prison on felony drug charges. Now he’s about to take the bar exam and become a public defender in Utah County, working in the same courtrooms he passed through as a very troubled teenager.