none thinks that persistent sockpuppeters would be reborn as a constructive editor honestly i'm more disappointed at you and his friends than law you were an admin in good standing and could've guided him to go a right way but you did not there are some precedents that blocked banned former admins editors who had relatively been good contributers but caused big controversies like betacommand scienceapologiest were unblocked unbanned after their time were served with good contributions to other sister projects or pleas on behalf of your friend i'm not sure you even tried that given his only few contribution to simple english and commons during his ban but active as law caspian blue