Where are the Caring Lawyers?

[Vandy Vol]

A Kansas attorney represented a guy for a capital murder case.  Sometime shortly before or shortly after, he lost his fucking mind.

He decided to inform the jury that his client was a “professional drug dealer” and a “shooter of people.”  During the sentencing hearing, he said that "the shooter," who his client was alleged to be, should be executed.  At one point, he argued that his client was innocent, because if his client had shot people, he wouldn't have left witnesses behind.

Ethical violations and competency concerns are brought up, and his license is at stake.  So what does he do?  Shows up to his hearing dressed as Thomas Jefferson.

You can get a good view of his costume starting at 5:17.  His speech begins at 22:38.  There's nothing of particular interest in the speech, unless you like listening to an old guy who sounds like Lou Holtz and has no clue what he is talking about, including whether phones and computers have GPS capabilities.




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You can get a good view of his costume starting at 5:17.  His speech begins at 22:38.  There's nothing of particular interest in the speech, unless you like listening to an old guy who sounds like Lou Holtz and has no clue what he is talking about, including whether phones and computers have GPS capabilities.

While I didn't go to some fancy lawyerin school like some of you folks.   It would seem to me that his argument of "if he had done it he would have left no one else alive, so clearly he didn't do it", would leave a lot of open holes.

I don't know that the guy was out of his mind, he just sounded like he didn't know what the fuck he was doing and had no business trying a capital murder case.

One thing I will say in regards to the GPS thing you mentioned was that the case was in 2005, he probably didn't know that cellphones had GPS tracking capabilities.

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I am seriously considering suing Vandy for posting this.

[Godfather]

I am seriously considering suing Vandy for posting this.

Better than the gay porn he normally sends me.

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[CLEARWATER — Three Tampa lawyers accused of setting up a DUI sting to ensnare a rival will have to submit to questioning, a judge ordered on Monday.

But that does not mean the lawyers from the firm of Adams & Diaco will offer any answers.

Accused in January 2013 of engineering the arrest of an opposing lawyer during a high-profile trial, Robert Adams, Stephen Diaco and Adam Filthaut have so far refused to answer questions about the allegations against them. All three face charges from the Florida Bar of misconduct, unfairness to opposing counsel and disrupting court.

If they are found guilty, their penalty could range from an admonishment to suspension to disbarment. The last option would prohibit them from practicing law in Florida.

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One possible reason for the lawyers' silence is that they remain under investigation by the FBI and a federal grand jury. If they are charged with criminal offenses, anything they say in the Bar trial could be used against them in a federal case that would put much more than their careers in jeopardy.

In January 2013, after a day in court representing radio personality Todd Schnitt in a defamation case, attorney C. Philip Campbell sat in an upscale steak house bar in downtown Tampa. A young paralegal from Adams & Diaco sat next to him, lied about where she worked, flirted and drank with him, according to witnesses.

Campbell was later arrested and charged with DUI while driving her in her car. It was later revealed there were multiple phone calls and texts that night between the paralegal, her bosses and a Tampa police DUI sergeant who pulled Campbell over.

The sergeant, a close friend of one of the Adams & Diaco lawyers, was eventually fired. The DUI charge was dropped.

[Vandy Vol]

While I didn't go to some fancy lawyerin school like some of you folks.   It would seem to me that his argument of "if he had done it he would have left no one else alive, so clearly he didn't do it", would leave a lot of open holes.

I don't know that the guy was out of his mind, he just sounded like he didn't know what the fuck he was doing and had no business trying a capital murder case.

One thing I will say in regards to the GPS thing you mentioned was that the case was in 2005, he probably didn't know that cellphones had GPS tracking capabilities.

The trial didn't end until 2009, although it commenced in 2005.  Nonetheless, even if you give him a pass on the GPS bit, you still don't tell a jury that whoever did this needs to be executed.  Because if your client gets convicted, you've fucked him.

I can somewhat see the logic in stating that your client would have killed every witness, but does that really outweigh the negative picture you're painting of your client?  He's on trial for shooting and killing two women...I don't think it's sound to matter-of-factly announce that your client be sprayin' lead in the skreetz.

And then the Thomas Jefferson outfit?  Nucking futs.  No question.

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Classy.  It would have been better if the "paralegal" was underage and they called Chris Hansen.