But He’s A Criminal Lawyer

Proving once again that the old joke about the words 'criminal lawyer' being redundant is true, a 27 year old law student in Australia has been sentenced to more than four years in prison. He was captured by police trying to escape the scene of his latest burglary. In a taxi.

When not studying for a masters degree in law, Phillip Ryan See, 27, used his off-time to rob 43 houses in Sydney's plush harbourside suburbs, netting goods worth more than A$110,000 ($83,000), the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper said on Thursday.

See, who once worked as a legal assistant in a government law office, would load plasma televisions, cameras, jewelry and laptop computers into the boot of a taxi after each raid.

But when a surprised home-owner discovered See during a midnight burglary, police arrested the would-be legal eagle escaping in the back of another taxi.

He'll be doing a different sort of bar exam for a few years.