A self-described “law nerd” who reinvented the Dauphin County Public Defender’s Office before debasing it to illegally help a mentor’s campaign for the bench, made his case Monday to continue practicing law .

Bradley Winnick testified before a state disciplinary board committee that he went down a “rabbit hole of logic” that in 2017 he felt justified using taxpayer dollars to reward his employees, who used vacation time to campaign on behalf of now-Judge Royce Morris at polling places.

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