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A Wisconsin law grad says she disclosed a past arrest. The bar says it wasn’t the whole truth, which includes 114 pounds of marijuana.

Gatekeepers of Wisconsin’s legal profession say it was her cover-up, not her crime, that makes Abby Padlock unfit for admission to practice law.

But Padlock, a 2019 graduate of the University of Wisconsin Law School, denies she covered up her 2015 arrest for transporting marijuana. She disclosed it — albeit not with all the details — on her application to law school and to the Board of Bar Examiners.