since9
Campaign Veteran
Does anyone else here feel our system of justice has failed us? Who here believes that far too many lawyers, who are technically officers of the court, lie six ways to Sunday because they're far more concerned about winning their cases than ensuring, as is their duty as officers of the court, justice is appropriately dispensed? Who here has seen a judge, when faced with a preponderance of evidence towards one conclusion, decide to the contrary based on nothing more than she's worked with the opposing attorney for a number of years and that she "trusts him implicitly?"
The ^^^above^^^ is true, and despite all parties, including the judge, having been delivered a certain piece of paper well ahead of court, despite that same piece of paper being presented in court, under oath, and admitted to the court record, the judge, chums of the other attorney, sided with that attorney in her decision, even going so far as to claim, "I have yet to see any evidence of the alleged document in question."
Fortunately, based on the document, the court record, filings by the attorney, and the judge's ruling, the attorney was censured and suspended from practicing law for six months. Unfortunately, that does little harm to a lawyer practicing in a firm, as they're still allowed to do work as a paralegal. About the only thing they cannot do is represent a client.
Since it was his antics in violation of his oath of office which cost me more than $20,000, I'd have preferred to see him censured and suspended from practicing law for three months while being forced to pay me 25% of the mean of his annual gross income for the previous three years. That would have just about covered the debt while sending a clear message to other attorneys: Quit Lying.
What about the judge? Was she censured? Was she forced to vacate or change her previous decision?
Nope. She, the ultimate authority in this debacle, got away scott-free, and I was the one left holding the $20,000 loss.
Pardon me if I do not appear to hold the courts or out system of justice in high esteem. In my experience, they have yet to earn it, while having most certainly earned loads of disdain.
Well, that's my story. Let's hear yours! Perhaps someone within the system will read this and think twice about just how much deceit and subterfuge can cost an innocent party.
The ^^^above^^^ is true, and despite all parties, including the judge, having been delivered a certain piece of paper well ahead of court, despite that same piece of paper being presented in court, under oath, and admitted to the court record, the judge, chums of the other attorney, sided with that attorney in her decision, even going so far as to claim, "I have yet to see any evidence of the alleged document in question."
Fortunately, based on the document, the court record, filings by the attorney, and the judge's ruling, the attorney was censured and suspended from practicing law for six months. Unfortunately, that does little harm to a lawyer practicing in a firm, as they're still allowed to do work as a paralegal. About the only thing they cannot do is represent a client.
Since it was his antics in violation of his oath of office which cost me more than $20,000, I'd have preferred to see him censured and suspended from practicing law for three months while being forced to pay me 25% of the mean of his annual gross income for the previous three years. That would have just about covered the debt while sending a clear message to other attorneys: Quit Lying.
What about the judge? Was she censured? Was she forced to vacate or change her previous decision?
Nope. She, the ultimate authority in this debacle, got away scott-free, and I was the one left holding the $20,000 loss.
Pardon me if I do not appear to hold the courts or out system of justice in high esteem. In my experience, they have yet to earn it, while having most certainly earned loads of disdain.
Well, that's my story. Let's hear yours! Perhaps someone within the system will read this and think twice about just how much deceit and subterfuge can cost an innocent party.
