Sherman Skolnick: Disabled but Without Fear like Daredevil, He Sent 20 Judges and 40 Lawyers to Jail for Bribery !

Sherman Skolnick - sounds like Sherlock Holmes - was born in 1930 and confined in a wheelchair by polio since age 6. In 1958, his parents lost their meager life savings due to corruption of some judges and politicians.

Skolnick trained himself in the law to defend his parents. The legal fight ended in the state's high court. He told the judge in open court: "if my parents are not treated fairly, I would one day come back and put every one of the crooked judges on the high court in jail where they belonged". The judges came down "with their crooked decision", skolnick recalled. They couldn't know he was going to hold on his promise.

In 1963, he founded the CITIZENS' COMMITTEE TO CLEAN UP THE COURTS. In 1969, Time Magazine featured a story about Skolnick: he uncovered the biggest judicial Bribery Scandal In U.S. History that eventually caused the resignation of two Illinois Supreme Court justices - they had accepted bribes of stock from a defendant in a case on which they ruled. The event also catapulted John Paul Stevens, who was then acting at the commission investigating the corrupt judges, to fame as a justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.

Skolnick died in 2006. He kept in touch his whole life with Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, calling him an honorable and honest man, who also wrote the introduction to Skolnick's most recent book titled "Ahead of the Parade" which in part looks at the lives of three honest high-level judges who were banished from the bench and then terrorized for, of all things, making honest and fair decisions.