In the famous 1963 case Gideon v. Wainwright, made into a movie starring Henry Fonda (watch it below), the Supreme Court ruled states must provide indigent defendants with lawyers in criminal case (details here). In Washington, counties and cities employ public defenders for this task. But the state[...]
Posts Tagged ‘lawyers’
John Eastman’s disbarment hearing begins
He’s the Trump lawyer behind the fake electors scheme and author of the so-called “coup memo” (details here). That got him fired from a teaching job at a Colorado law school; and now the state bar of California, where he’s licensed and has a practice, is seeking to disbar him[...]
Trump election lawyer censured
Colorado lawyer Jenna Ellis was a member of the “elite strike force team” of lawyers led by Rudy Giuliani (details here) that tried to overturn Trump’s 2020 election loss with dodgy legal tactics. In her home state, Ellis was accused of violating professional ethics by participatin[...]
Pence blames lawyers, not Trump
“First, we’ll kill all the lawyers,” Cado’s rebel henchman, anarchist Dick the Butcher, says in Shakespeare’s “King Henry VI,” in Part 2, Act 4. Anarchist rebel Donald Trump doesn’t kill lawyers, but he doesn’t pay them, and throws them under the[...]
May 3rd, 2018 - 8:50 am § in Donald Trump, Politics
Giuliani Drops Bombs
TRUMP REPAID $130K FOR STORMY JARED ‘DISPOSABLE’ COMEY THE ‘PERVERT’ [...]
March 28th, 2018 - 9:15 am § in Donald Trump
Trump Finds a Shyster: PRAISE JESUS
Andrew Ekonomou A former prosecutor with a doctorate in medieval history will play a central role on U.S. President Donald Trump’s legal team. Ekonomou assisted Sekulow in a famous case involving the religious group Jews for Jesus before the Supreme Court in the 1980s. Ekonomou currently ser[...]
February 27th, 2018 - 7:45 am § in Misc.
When the lawyer is a kike,
The sheriff called the prosecutor a “son-of-a-bitch Jew bastard” and threatened to shoot him “right between [his] goddamned Jewish eyes.” The kike prosecutor has asked the court for new conditions modifying Ackal’s release from jail pending his trial. New restrictions would include [...]
June 16th, 2017 - 12:01 am § in Hypocrisy, The Ave Scene
Legal Thuggery Under the Bar
Law student who turned her life around can’t take bar exam because of her past Tarra Simmons, a nurse and mother of three, survived drug addiction, divorce, loss of her house and served 20 months behind bars. In prison she became excited by lawyers. She went on to win virtually every acade[...]
March 21st, 2017 - 12:46 pm § in Misc.
Legal Thuggery: Don’t Demean an Attorney, UNLESS Your Facts Are Correct
Libeling a Lawyer in Yelp Reviews Turns Out to be a Bad Idea In case you’re ever in the position of wanting to get back at a lawyer, here’s some news from Florida: don’t get your revenge by posting a slanderous Yelp review, or you’ll be in the hole for $350,000. The case concerns a […[...]