I didn‘t want to decide the fate of others, I wanted to help
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Jan Choděra was born on September 17, 1952 in Prague to Eliška and Oldřich Choděra. Jan Choděra lived a peaceful childhood alongside his older brother in Prague‘s Vinohrady district. He lived through the invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops in Posázaví. In 1968-1971 he studied at a general secondary school. In 1971-1976 he studied at the Faculty of Law of Charles University in Prague. In 1976-1979 he worked as a law clerk in Chomutov in the law office of the Regional Association of Lawyers in Ústí nad Labem. Since 1980 he was a member of the Municipal Association of Lawyers in Prague, specifically in the group of juvenile lawyers. In 1986, he defended Čestmír Huňát in the Jazz Section trial. He welcomed the Velvet Revolution with enthusiasm, established a private law practice and continued to devote himself to his profession. In 2025 he lived in the Louny region.