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Defending oneself in court not a matter to be taken lightly.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
WOODBURY, N.J. _ Hannah McCullough was trembling before the judge.
Five years ago, McCullough had submitted a request in Gloucester County Superior Court that a slander case against her be dropped.
No attorney was involved: She had done all the legal research, the writing, and even dropped off the paperwork on her own.
When McCullough first decided to represent herself in court, she had not even heard of a motion for summary judgment.
An attorney representing her on a personal-injury case had accused her of slandering him in the legal community because she had fired him. McCullough discovered that the attorney did not have a strong case and decided to fight it in court herself.
Months later, she was waiting for the judge's opinion on the motion she had drafted, 61 pages long.
"My voice was shaking," McCullough recalled. "I can still feel the sweat."
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