What do you lawyers have to do to get disbarred

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In the Old Days, get caught with a Dead Girl or a Live Boy

In these Post-Enlightenment times, neither applies ( see Gary Condit or Gerry Studds, etc ) Now you need to piss off a Major Donator, commit Aggravated Racial Insensitivity, or probably do both while wanking in plain sight

Oldie but a Goodie: “What do you call 500 lawyers chained together and tossed overboard in deep seas? ….a good start”

If there is a smoking gun in the Duke University rape case, it is not about the stripper who made the charges or the lacrosse players who have been accused. The smoking gun is the decision of District Attorney Michael Nifong to postpone a trial until the spring of 2007.

That makes no sense from either a legal or a social standpoint, whether the players are guilty or innocent. But it tells us something about District Attorney Nifong.

Suppose, for the sake of argument, that the players are guilty. What is the point of letting a bunch of rapists remain at large for another year? What about the dangers that they would pose to women on or off the Duke University campus?

What purpose does the delay serve? The most obvious purpose is the same as the purpose that delay serves in confidence games.

After a fraud has been perpetrated and it is only a matter of time before the victim finds out, it can still make a big difference whether the victim finds out suddenly or slowly over an extended period of time. This is called “cooling out the mark.”

One of Clinton’s press secretaries called these delaying tactics “telling the truth slowly.”

It was out of the question for Nifong to drop the case before the recent election, no matter how flimsy the evidence might be or how much of that evidence exonerates the accused instead of showing them to be guilty.

Even after being re-elected, the district attorney cannot let his indictment collapse in public while there is nationwide attention focussed [sic] on this case 24-7.

What will be different next year? The public will have either forgotten the case or be tired of hearing about it. The D.A. can even turn the case over to some lawyer on his staff to take into court and see it either get thrown out by the judge or fail to convince a jury.

We will all be tired of hearing about it by then. We are the marks who will be cooled out.

Bullseye.

Lawyers have souls?? Who would have known..

Better get ready to say bye-bye to Junior, then. I hope you weren’t too attached. ;^)

He will almost certainly lose his license over this case. His actions were a WILLFUL abuse of his position as prosecutor and flies directly against his prosecutor’s oath of office. He will also face civil liability for malicious and false prosecution.

His disbarment may not be permanent, however. Bill Clinton was disbarred from practice before the Supreme Court (and he accepted Arkansas state disbarment, as well) for committing perjury under oath for a 5 year period.

Lawyers in Illinois (I read my wife’s state bar Journal) get disbarred, either permanently but usually for a period of time, for misappropriation of client moneys, malpractice, conflict of interest, and conviction of a felony. This is similar to what happens in other states such as Wisconsin.

The NC bar will act and that action will be more than a slap on the wrist. It will include removal from office as well disbarment, because this is an egregious violation of the defendant’s civil rights as well as a criminal act.

And regardless of what NC does, it is my hope that federal charges will be brought for violating the civil rights of the defendants under color of law.

The thing is this will make it easier for Jesse, Al, and the group of 88 to claim Nifong mislead them.

This is nothing new for Al Sharpton, and he knows exactly how to handle it–just pretend it didn’t happen, and eventually it will go away. The civil suit which the cop in the Tawana Brawley case won, which made shreds out of the whole Brawley incident was completely ignored by his constituency, and eventually by the mainstream media. How else could he dare run as a candidate for president?

That piece of trash Nifong ought to be in jail for this crap. I’ll tell you this–there are going to be some HUGE lawsuits coming out of this, and one of the plaintiffs will be Duke, which will be on the hook for huge punitive damages. Talk about pain and suffering, and mental anguish! Under these terms in the dictionary is a picture of these poor kids. I wouldn’t be surprised if Duke ended up having to cough up several million. They left those boys to twist in the wind at best, if not actually helping at the lynching itself. This is PC run amok.

“When the State Bar notified Nifong on Dec. 20 that the organization was investigating the withheld evidence and false statements, Nifong acknowledged…”

Didn’t he finally do something about some charges in this case on the 21st of December??? One day after the State Bar came calling?

Nifong told the bar that he withheld the results out of concerns for the players’ privacy concerns his career. He said ruefully, “I needed to stay in office long enough to get state retirement benefits, so I figured it was a perfectly understandable thing to do. And those rich punks were drinking under age, anyway, so they deserved it. Honestly, I’m the victim here.”

There, fixed it.

However, I would not be too suprised, disapointed for sure, but not suprised to see him keep his bar license. As a law student taking an ethics course this semester, I’m excited to bring this case up during class.

Troy Rasmussen on January 24, 2007 at 11:37 AM

If they do, I hope the NC general assembly comes down hard on the NC state bar.

It would be hard to come up with a stronger case for disbarment, and if the bar can’t police it’s own then they should surrender the right to have that authority.

It has been a core element of the liberal worldview that to use the law to knowingly prosecute innocent individuals is one of the most egregious injustices in our society. When I hear people – and not to target the Democrats unfairly, but it is always a liberal Democrat – claim that “social injustice” is their great passion, I always wondered what, exactly, they are talking about.

I guess they are talking about Mike Nifong.

The ironic part for me is that this group obviously despises social injustice, too. We just see it in different places, I suspect.

Sad, but true. What do you lawyers have to do to get disbarred?

Jaibones on January 24, 2007 at 10:06 AM

Refusal to sell your soul.

Sad, but true. What do you lawyers have to do to get disbarred?

Jaibones on January 24, 2007 at 10:06 AM

Well, the first thing they would have to do is become a conservative and resign from the Democratic Party. That would be the initial step to take.

ptolemy on January 24, 2007 at 10:20 AM
WELL SAID!

Not noted yet is the travesty of the decision to cancel the Duke Lacrosse season. A team ranked 2nd in the country didn’t even play. How that has hurt the players, seniors especially, we will never know. The damage is multi faceted to be sure, and Nifong is just the tip of that rotten iceberg.

The entire team got nifonged, as well as many many others.

Also, as a side benefit, maybe other ‘questionable’ DA’s around the country might straighten up, if need be.

Sad, but true. What do you lawyers have to do to get disbarred?

I think the only thing explicitly stated is to “[B]e caught shooting a judge in a courtroom with video evidence.”

You could have seen this coming a month ago as it was all but telegraphed by the State Bar. Still, it is good to see that they’re pushing this case hard……