JAABLOG RUMOR MILL



We're baaack...after a long layoff we're happy to report that Judge Ana Gardiner may have recently received some most excellent news.  Congratulations are in order, but before we see her smiling face back in the criminal division, we might want to wait for the Supreme Court to rule on Mr. Loureiro's case

The matter is currently being appealed by the good folks at the West Palm Beach Public Defender's Office.  Will the mystery witnesses come forward for the appeal?  Will the Supreme Court grant a new trial or a new Penalty Phase?  If they do, will it mean more trouble for our Ana?

The Chief Judge election process has also been chugging along since late December.  The nomination period ends this Friday at 4:00 PM.

Has anyone beside Smilin' Vic already put in?  Is anyone thinking about putting their name in?  Is one of JAABLOG's favorite judges really serious about a run for the roses?  Only Ms. Ortman knows, and she's not talking.  We'll have to wait until Friday to find out. 

If there is a race, absentee voting will commence on January 20th, running through January 30th, followed by the election on February 3rd.  If necessary, there will be a runoff on February 10th.  The new Chief Judge's term commences July 1st, for two years.

And what of Judge Lazarus?  Will he or won't he?  Is the siren call of a hard earned retirement being shouted down by the possibility of a few very high paying years?  Why should Stanton Kaplan have all the fun anyway? 

Whatever he decides, we couldn't be happier for the good fortune of our favorite Judiciary/BSO husband and wife team.

Lastly, what is the strange noise coming out of Ireland?  A terrible storm brewing off the coast over some highly inappropriate statements?  Alleged vintage Broward anti-defendant comments to be litigated tomorrow, so stay tuned.



                                        IT'S ALL ABOUT THE RUMORS, BABY!

 

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  • 1/12/2009 6:23 PM Anonymous wrote:
    I'm so confused. Gardiner??? What's up with her. Sure is taking JQC a long time to charge her. Ireland??? What did she say? Judge Joel Lazarus-Lamberti should retire and let Mardi run. No double dipping Joel. Who is JAAB's favorite judge? No one is silly enough to put in against Vic.
  • 1/12/2009 6:32 PM Fake Baby Backman wrote:
    Damn that B*tch. How dare she file for Lazarus's seat. That seat BELONGS TO ME!!!! ITS MINE MINE MINE MINE MINE. DADDY PROMISED IT TO ME!!!!

    I've put in 5 years into this crappy practice of law just so I'd be ready to run in 2010. I'm just as qualified as Ian Richards AND I'm white and Jewish and have nice hair. Oh, and did you know my dad's a judge too..

    And just because she filed, now Joel may not retire. DAMMIT MARDI. Can't you leave well enough alone.

    Now what am I going to do???? I can't keep faking being a lawyer until 2012. I really need this gig soon before the partners here realize what a yutz I am.
  • 1/12/2009 6:57 PM Jack Thompson, Once and Future Attorney (Trust Me) wrote:
    Here's something that is NOT a rumor, and it's spelled without a "u" in the States, since we don't speak Middle English here anymore:

    John B. Thompson, J.D.
    5721 Riviera Drive
    Coral Gables, Florida 33146
    305-666-4366
    amendmentone@comcast.net

    January 12, 2009

    The Honorable James W. Moore
    Circuit Court Judge
    Fayette County Courthouse
    Fayette, Alabama 35555 Via Fax to 205-932-3678

    Re: Judge Moore’s Orders Rendered Void by Failure to Execute and File the State
    Judges’ Loyalty Oath

    Dear Judge Moore:

    If the sending of this fax breaks your fax machine again, send me the bill. It will be worth it.

    I just got off the phone with the Alabama Secretary of State’s office, and the clerk there called me to tell me that she had gotten my written request, and it does not appear that you ever executed and filed a State Loyalty Oath with the Alabama Secretary of State, as you are required to do by Alabama Code Sections 36-4-1 and 2.

    The execution and filing of this written oath is also mandated by federal law 4 USC 102. It is one of the first Acts passed by Congress. They’re the folks in Washington who have a history of reminding folks in Alabama what the federal law is. It appears, according again to your own state’s Secretary of State, that you never executed and filed this state- and federally-madated written oath of office. This is a very serious matter.

    The case law is clear that any failure on your part to timely execute and file your oath renders your orders void. Please review this line of cases which began, as you recall, with Marbury v. Madison. To quote you as you said to me: “Any first-year law student should know this, Mr. Thompson.”

    This is quite an interesting development, is it not, Your Honor? You are the very judge (correct me if I am wrong) who has asserted in a Bar complaint that I was allegedly unauthorizedly practicing law in your state by signing a pleading as a pro hac vice applicant. This became your view, wrongly, only when the porn lawyers asked you to adopt this view.

    Now we find that you’ve been on the bench, it seems, since December 16, 1993, without an oath of office, and you had absolutely no authority to sit on the bench and act like a judge.

    There are a number of civil litigants, not to mention criminal defendants, one of whom is named Devin Moore and who is sitting on Death Row in the Atmore facility, who will be quite interested (will they not?) to know that all of your orders can now be challenged by virtue of the fact that you have had absolutely no legal or constitutional authority to enter those orders.

    If you don’t immediately alert the Alabama Supreme Court to your problem and provide me with a copy thereof, I shall do so.

    Nice going, “Judge.”

    Regards, Jack Thompson

    Copy: Media
    Equal Justice Initiative of Alabama, Bryan Stevenson
  • 1/12/2009 7:02 PM Anonymous wrote:
    You just can't help picking at those old wounds and hurting yourself all over again can you?
  • 1/12/2009 7:08 PM RED PRIEST wrote:
    And why should they? Tobin has done if not a brilliant job, certainly a good job since taking office as Chief Judge, especially considering the task.
    Of course, anyone would have been an improvement over Ross & Co's vast and far reaching, not to mention long lasting, mismanagement of judicial resources, leaving a real mess in their wake as has been repeatedly witnessed by all of Broward County.
    Heck, Tobin should stay to make sure the reek is aired finally and for good.
    That's the simple and most optimistic scenario.
    With any number of old and cantankerous judges waiting till retirement to make room for a new and much needed transfusion of new judicial blood, the hemorrhaging could continue for a while claiming maybe a few more judges in 2010 and beyond.
    It's a new game with changing perimeters likely to change even more, and quite soon.
  • 1/12/2009 7:20 PM Dog Welder wrote:
    Jack Thompson fails at reading the full laws, or, at least, reading only what he wants to see:

    Section 36-4-4
    Filing of oaths of judges of inferior courts and other officers whose general duties confined to counties.

    Judges of other inferior courts and all other officers whose general duties are confined to a single county must, unless otherwise provided, file such oath and certificate in the office of the judge of probate of their respective counties.

    Jack, you might want to check with the county office. I'd start with the "Fayette County Court House" to which you addressed the letter.

    Also, you're confusing "Florida State Loyalty Oath" once again with the federally mandated "Oath of Office." They are not, nor have they ever been, the same thing.
  • 1/12/2009 7:28 PM Anonymous wrote:
    SOME JAABLOG IDIOT (SORRY TO BE REDUNDANT) ASKED ME WHY I POST THINGS LIKE THIS HERE. ANSWER: TO AMUSE YOU. DO I AMUSE YOU, LIKE A CLOWN? BEST, JOE PESCI:

    IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA

    THE FLORIDA BAR,

    Complainant,

    v. Case Numbers SC07 - 80 and SC07- 354

    JOHN B. THOMPSON,

    Respondent.

    RESPONDENT’S MOTION TO STRIKE AFFIDAVIT/STATEMENT OF COSTS

    COMES NOW respondent Thompson and moves this court to strike Bar Prosecutor Sheila Tuma’s Affidavit/Statement of Costs, stating:
    1. On October 29, 2008, Bar Prosecutor Sheila Tuma submitted to this Court an Affidavit purporting to set forth what “costs” Thompson owes The Florida Bar for the pleasure of having the porn-to-kids industry ask for the revocation of his right to practice law just because he annoyed that industry.
    2. This was a “corrective affidavit,” because Ms. Tuma said she committed a “scrivener’s error,” apparently because when you want to take $43,000 from Jack Thompson you can’t be bothered to use a calculator carefully. Ms. Tuma only found this “error” when it became clear that Thompson was intent upon getting proof of what he owed and why.
    3. The Bar, in light of her $2000 “error,” has now in writing admitted that the undersigned is absolutely correct—that he owes The Bar nothing until this Supreme Court enters an order establishing what the amount is that he owes.
    4. The problem with that, which this Court well knows, is that The Bar absolutely refuses to produce any bills, receipts, and other documents proving up what Thompson supposedly owes. The fact is this: All but $1250 of this Affidavit/Statement signed by Tuma is an utter fabrication. These are not taxable costs that Ms. Tuma has sworn are taxable costs. $8000 for travel costs? What travel costs? For Orlando Bar prosecutor Ken Bryk to come to South Florida for days on end? $8000 for “witness fees?” Again, these aren’t even taxable as costs. And $23,000 for a verbatim transcript of the proceedings that “Judge” Tunis sat through, taking, she assured all who would listen to her interminable self-congratulatory comments, that “I am taking extensive notes of everything that is transpiring.” What in the world did this “Judge” need a $23,000 transcript for, to send commemorative copies to the Bar operatives who sent her money?
    5. And why is Thompson being charged for 100% of the alleged costs when he prevailed on a number of the counts, including ALL of the Alabama counts? Allocation of costs is supposed to be proportional in this state based upon who prevailed and to what extent. It doesn’t take a course in logarithms to know that.
    6. You see, this is what a little thing called “due process” is for, not that anyone on The Bar’s staff would know what due process is.
  • 1/12/2009 7:29 PM Anonymous wrote:
    Certainly not Ms. Tuma and Mr. Bryk, who have spent their entire law careers doing nothing but prosecuting lawyers. If you can believe it, Thompson was denied by this alleged “Judge,” this Referee, any discovery whatsoever from Sheila Tuma so that he could put her under oath and ask at ad deposition, “What are the bases for these more than $40,000 in costs? Where are the receipts? What witness fees are you talking about? Why are there $8,000 in travel costs from Orlando to Miami?” No lawyer who has practiced more than one year has ever heard of a court denying a litigant his right to inquire proof as to costs to be assessed after trial. This amounts to a confiscation of property without due process, and this Court, with all respect, knows that. And that is why it won’t enter an order as to costs, because it is afraid to—afraid that Thompson can prove the perjury of The Bar’s own prosecutor.
    7. So here we are, with the Florida Supreme Court noting on its own altered court docket that the U.S. Supreme Court is about to get this disciplinary case, and the undersigned now gets to tell the United States Supreme Court that this Court is now involved in confiscation of a citizen’s property with no due process.
    8. It’s bad enough that this court took the undersigned’s law career from him. Now it wants to take his money from him on the basis of perjury.
    9. Wherefore, the affidavit/statement must be stricken, and respondent moves that it be, in light of the refusal of The Bar to prove up its basis and in light of this court’s fear even to ask The Bar to prove it up. Don’t blame Thompson for this. Blame The Bar’s lying prosecutors.
    10. Finally, in addition to presenting this motion, respondent reminds this court that a refusal to file and docket this pleading is a criminal act the commission of which will be highlighted in respondent’s petition for writ of certiorari to be filed next month with the U.S. Supreme Court.
    I HEREBY CERTIFY that a copy hereof has been provided January 12, 2009, to Bar counsel Sheila Tuma, Orlando Bar Office, 1200 Edgewater Drive, Orlando, FL 32804, and provided to all Bar Governors and Officers by electronic means.

    John B. Thompson, Juris Doctor, Respondent
    5721 Riviera Drive
    Coral Gables, Florida 33146, phone, 305-666-4366
    amendmentone@comcast.net
  • 1/12/2009 7:30 PM Jack Thompson, Once and Future Attorney (Trust Me) wrote:
    He's a judge in three counties, moron, which is why the Secretary of State called. You on drugs?
  • 1/12/2009 7:31 PM Anonymous wrote:
    Oh, and as an aside, the phrase you are looking for is Chancery Standard, not Middle English, which was the name given to the mish-mash of versions of the language spoken and written post 1066 but pre Printing press, which more or less forced standardisation on it.

    So, in Middle English, rumour might be rumor, or roomor, or roomer.

    Small point, but it's a mistake a lot of people make, Middle English hasn't been spoken or written for over 350 years in the UK.
  • 1/12/2009 7:33 PM Anonymous wrote:
    You aren't exactly imaginative when it comes to thinking up those petty insults, are you?
  • 1/12/2009 7:43 PM Chatty Cathy aka (Ireland) wrote:
    Ireland at it again? What do you expect from and Old Sky Waitress, or do they call them Air Matresses. I just don't know these days.
    But if you've ever managed to have a conversation with her, if you can call it that as she's talking about herself and her accomplishments, you'll find there's not much there, if there ever was.
    Again, only in Broward.
  • 1/12/2009 7:44 PM Judge Mental wrote:
    One small problem with your statement, Jack "Child Abuse is A-OK" Thompson; EVERYTHING you say and type is an insulting, slanderous, badly thought-out, repeatedly proven lie. EVERYTHING.

    You lie about being knowledgable with the law, you lie about upholding the First Amendment, you lie about actually reading your precious Bible, you lie about make-believe violence being the cause of every violent event in history, you lie about saving children's lives, you lie about feeling anything other than orgasmic joy over the deaths of good people, you lie about your pro-fascist pro-luddite bills being 'constitutionally bulletproof', you lie about never harrassing anyone, you lie about never condoning the actions of child abusers and mass murderers, you lie about about having a decent job, you lie about your waste of paper you call a book being a smash hit, you lie about being a lawyer, you lie about being a Christian, you lie about being a good husband, you lie about being a responsible parent and you lie about being an intelligent, legitimate human being.

    Deny it all you want, but we have mountains of evidence that proves you guilty as charged on every single charge of slander, fraud, deceit, libel, perjury, intimidation, promoting child-killing, spreading racial hatred, intent to cause physical harm, terrorism and treason. You self-claimed 'protectors of the children' have shown how much you actually want them dead and their cold bodies abused in the name of your disgusting, law-breaking agenda... and frankly, it's officially reached the point where capital punishment is the only way of truly dealing with your criminal stupidity.
  • 1/12/2009 8:08 PM Kincyr wrote:
    @Jack Thompson, who said:
    "Here's something that is NOT a rumor, and it's spelled without a "u" in the States"

    so you spell it "rmor"? lose the drugs, then talk
  • 1/12/2009 8:11 PM Kincyr wrote:
    @Jack Thompson, who wrote:
    "SOME JAABLOG IDIOT (SORRY TO BE REDUNDANT) ASKED ME WHY I POST THINGS LIKE THIS HERE."

    if posting on JAABLAW makes one an idiot, then congratulations, you just called yourself an idiot
  • 1/12/2009 8:29 PM Anonymous wrote:
    Dammit, my snarky Baby Backman post gets hijacked by Freaking Jack Thompson BS. Can you shunt these goofballs over to their own thread.
  • 1/12/2009 8:34 PM Kincyr wrote:
    8. seeing as how you claim to be a Christian, you only payed half of what you owe. Matthew 5:40-41 states you shouldn't pay exactly what the court decides, you should pay TWICE as much. As said by Jesus himself, "And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloak also. And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain." You cannot serve both god and money.
  • 1/12/2009 8:41 PM Dog Welder wrote:
    Not signed by a grown up lawyer. Who's the moron again?

    Also, you had ample time for discovery. You just decided to squander it by ignoring the court's orders. Who's the moron again?

    You're not getting your lawyerin' license back, no matter how big a tantrum you throw.
  • 1/12/2009 8:44 PM Dog Welder wrote:
    No, the Secretary of State called because you were probably bothering her, destroying her fax machine, or cluttering her voicemail with garbage. Ooo...he's a judge in 3 hick counties. Seriously, check the Fayette County Courthouse. It's still an "inferior court."
  • 1/12/2009 8:47 PM nightwng2000 wrote:
    Still trying to win on a technicality, eh Traitor John Bruce?

    Can't win on Truth so you have to, in effect, cheat your way to a win?

    Is that another "moral" act of your sociopathic religion? After all, you, yourself, claim that your religion and the law should go hand in hand. So your actions, lies, deceit, bigotry, hate, cheating, and others, MUST be the "moral" codes your religion also advocates. Sounds like we need to "protect the children" from the "mental molestation" of such "morals" being taught to them by such "immoral" organizations such as YOUR church. We need to get the kids out of that porn religions sect you're harming them at. Someone call the cops! Someone call Social Services and Child Welfare! Someone call the DA! Someone call the AG! Someone call the legislature! Won't someone please think of the children?!

    Andrew
  • 1/12/2009 8:51 PM Neeneko wrote:
    Pity the case law does not, nor has it ever, agreed with you.

    You are correct president is quite clear. Unfortunately for you it clearly states that a judge, by virtue of acting as a judge in an official capacity, is one.
  • 1/12/2009 9:09 PM Anonymous wrote:
    If Lazarus won't retire, Mardi or someone else, should run against him. Lazarus was appointed thanks to that corrupt convicted felon Russ Barakat. Lazarus is a sex discrimination suit waiting to happen. Why is Satz always putting good looking women ASAs in his division? While he deserves credit for trying cases, Lazarus has made many political decisions from the bench. Time for ole Joel to go.
    P.S. not to mention his double-dipping thanks to the bullsh*t drop program.
  • 1/12/2009 9:28 PM DavCube wrote:
    No, you don't post these to amuse us. You post these to amuse yourself, posting your infantile insults like some bully on the schoolyard, and once people counter you with facts, you run to the hills crying for mommy.

    Way to act almost 60 years old, jabroni.
  • 1/12/2009 9:31 PM DavCube wrote:
    "So here we are, with the Florida Supreme Court noting on its own altered court docket that the U.S. Supreme Court is about to get this disciplinary case"

    Uh, no. They never said that, Jack. Stop kidding yourself. And you think WE'RE mentally fondling ourselves...
  • 1/12/2009 9:33 PM DavCube wrote:
    Thanks for yet again proving your selective literacy, Mr. Thompson.
  • 1/12/2009 9:41 PM Cindy Bookbinder wrote:
    Jack: Go beg forgiveness before it's too late. But, for God's sake, seek redemption now.
  • 1/12/2009 10:46 PM Rumor Mill Chief Judge wrote:
    I do not know if it is true but I heard that goldenberg and greene maybe running against Vic. who is the sleeper?
  • 1/12/2009 11:31 PM BearDogg-X wrote:
    @ Jack "Metropolitian Moron of Miami" Thompson

    You must be the world's dumbest person, in my opinion.

    You do realize that if this "loyalty oath" B.S. gets that cop killer Devin "Lionel Tate Wannabe" Moore's conviction overturned, then Judge Moore's ruling that the so-called GTA lawsuit could go forward can be reversed on that same accord. And before you say "The Alabama Supreme Court ruled the same", they based that ruling on Moore's initial ruling, therefore the Alabama Supreme Court ruling would be null and void as well.

    Ever hear the phrase "Mutually Assured Destruction"?

    And since a grown-up attorney in good standing with the Florida Bar didn't sign off on your childish filing, it's going into the file of papers they use to line the birdcages.

    Newsflash: Just because the SCOTUS will receive your piece of garbage writ does not mean they'll agree to ever hear your worthless case.

    Practice what you preach, jabroni: Grow up and get a life.
  • 1/12/2009 11:39 PM Anonymous wrote:
    Not true.
  • 1/13/2009 5:09 AM Twinkle Greene wrote:
    Greene won't be running for Chief Judge. He'll just keep running from the NHI statement he made as long as Broward is cursed enough to have the weirdo around. He must have been a real twinkle in his daddy's eye.
  • 1/13/2009 6:42 AM nightwng2000 wrote:
    Ya know what I find interesting about the Traitor John Bruce?

    He goes on and on about how important the "Loyalty Oaths" are. He also goes on and on about the persecution of "Christians" (as opposed to his specific religious sect).

    I Googled the "loyalty oaths" and found a few "Christians" had been fired from their jobs as teachers because they refused to sign "loyalty oaths" because of their wording. At least 2 Quakers and 1 Witness. And that was just in the last year and the first couple of pages of Search. Not to mention the arguments against the "loyalty oaths" being forced on both Republicans and Democrats in certain situations.

    Gee, Traitor John Bruce, are you a fascist? As one article pointed out, "loyalty oaths" went out with McCarthy and the Nazi Party. Not to mention it appears you support persecution of at least a few "Christians".

    Shameful. Just shameful. I wonder if your Anti-American buddies who gave you that Freedom Award know you're a fascist who persecutes "Christians" and is a supporter of McCarthy and Nazi methods. Or, perhaps THEY, and others like the Eagles Forum, are as well. After all, they hold YOU in high regard, huh?

    Andrew
  • 1/13/2009 8:46 AM Dog Welder wrote:
    Jack,

    You were found guilty on 27 of 32 counts, including several from Alabama. Just because you THINK you prevailed on the Alabama counts doesn't mean you actually did until a higher court overturns the decision. Even if they proportioned out the fees you owe, it'd still be close to $37,000 of Patricia's money.
  • 1/13/2009 10:30 AM Anonymous wrote:
    NHI = Greene's done. When's his retirement dinner?
  • 1/13/2009 10:38 AM Jack Thompson, Once and Future Attorney (Trust Me) wrote:
    Nope, wrong again. I was acquited of all Alabama Bar violations. More than a dozen of them. I missed you at the trial. Were you there? I was. Read Tuni's Report and then send me your apology. Jack Thompson
  • 1/13/2009 10:54 AM Dog Welder wrote:
    I did read the Tuma report. Did you?

    I also know you haven't read:

    The Communications Decency Act
    The U.S. Constitution
    Various judges orders asking you not to do things (like send faxes, communicate to the press)

    Should I go on?
  • 1/13/2009 11:00 AM BearDogg-X wrote:
    @ Jack Thompson, Metropolitian Moron of Miami(Can't Trust You and Never Will)

    The Alabama "acquittals" doesn't count towards the Florida convictions.

    Looks like your frontal lobes must be fried, otherwise you would have known that the "loyalty oath defense"(which failed in Florida) you're now using to try to get a convicted cop killer's deserved death sentence overturned on a technicality would also get the civil lawsuit you filed based on the cop killer's lies thrown out on that very same technicality as well.

    "Mutually Assured Destruction", much?

    Have fun in Utah chasing Bigfoot and practice what you preach: Grow up and get a life.
  • 1/13/2009 11:07 AM Anonymous wrote:
    Case SC07-80: Count II (Judge Moore’s Complaint)
    On November 17, 2005, Judge Moore entered an order in Strickland wherein
    he revoked Mr. Thompson’s admission pro hac vice and further ordered:
    Subject to the contempt powers of this Court, Mr.
    Thompson is Ordered not to “copy”, “cc”, deliver or
    transmit any further correspondence, e-mails, media
    alerts, press releases, or any other communications or
    memoranda addressed or directed to third parties, to this
    Court and/or the undersigned Judge. Any further
    communications with the Court shall be through counsel
    of record and specifically related to the issues of this
    litigation.
  • 1/13/2009 11:50 AM ANonymous wrote:
    what the hell, thompson? are you really so pants-on-head retarded that being found CONVICTED, GUILTY, of nearly 30 counts of misconduct means you are in fact "acquitted"?

    GUILTY DOES N-O-T MEAN INNOCENT.

    GUILTY DOES N-O-T MEAN INNOCENT.

    GUILTY DOES N-O-T MEAN INNOCENT - ah, forget it. maybe that mental guy's right, death is the only way to get you to shut your stupid lying mouth.
  • 1/13/2009 1:30 PM Sortableturnip wrote:
    As to Count II: (Judge Moore’s complaint) A judge’s job is to follow the law. The evidence from the Final Hearing shows that because Mr. Thompson disagreed with Judge Moore’s November 17, 2005 Order, the Respondent repeatedly violated it. Mr.Thompson ignored the Judge’s order by sending approximately three hundred (300) pages (which are in evidence) of letters, pleadings, e-mails and missives to Judge Moore or copying Judge Moore as to correspondence sent to third parties from November 17, 2005 to a week before the Final Hearing on November 26, 2007. Thus, for over two years, Mr. Thompson has continued communicating with Judge Moore, in violation of the Judge’s order.
    Moreover in several of the letters, e-mails and pleadings that the Respondent filed and/or sent to Judge Moore or copied to Judge Moore, the Respondent made statements about the Judge which he knew to be false or with reckless disregard as to its truth concerning the qualifications or integrity of Judge Moore. Additionally, the evidence shows that the Respondent made misrepresentations about Judge Moore and knowingly or through callous indifference, made statements about Judge Moore to disparage or humiliate him in an attempt to intimidate the Judge regarding his complaint to the Florida Bar.This Court heard no credible evidence that the inflammatory and derogatory statements made by Mr. Thompson regarding Judge Moore were true. On the contrary the evidence indicates that when the Respondent received an adverse ruling from Judge Moore, he began making the untruthful comments about the Judge. Once Judge Moore issued his November 17, 2005 Order, revoking Mr. Thompson’s Admission Pro Hac Vice to The Alabama State Bar and thus preventing Mr. Thompson from acting as counsel of record in Strickland, the Respondent began the onslaught of conduct outlined above. Moreover, Judge Moore followed his judicial duty under Alabama Bar rules, when he forwarded his Order Revoking Admission Pro Hac Vice to the Alabama State Bar.
    Based on the evidence presented at the Final Hearing, this Court is making a factual finding that Mr. Thompson wrote and alleged in pleadings,statements that were utter fabrications for which there was no factual basis.This Court heard no credible evidence whatsoever in the nine (9) day trial, to substantiate that Judge Moore ignored complaints about witness tampering,or that Clatus Junkin ever said that he could “fix” a case in front of Judge Moore. Five of those nine days consisted of the Respondent putting on his case in these disciplinary matters. Thus, this Court finds that not only were Respondent’s statements regarding Judge Moore untruthful, they were clearly made with reckless disregard for their truth or falsity concerning the qualifications of Judge Moore. Moreover, Mr. Thompson engaged in conduct involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit and misrepresentation when he uttered the comments. Mr. Thompson likewise engaged in conduct in the connection with the practice of
  • 1/13/2009 1:36 PM Sortableturnip wrote:
    law that is prejudicial to the administration of justice, including, to knowingly disparage or humiliate other lawyers,when he stated that the Honorable Clatus Junkin said to Mr. Thompson and others, that he could “fix” a case.Furthermore, when Mr. Thompson alleged in his Petition for Writ of Mandamus To The Supreme Court in the State of Alabama that, “Junkin ‘got Judge Moore his judgeship,’ according to Junkin,…” the Respondent engaged in conduct with reckless disregard for the truth or falsity concerning the integrity of Judge Moore and acting senior Judge Clatus Junkin. Mr.Thompson intentionally ignored and misrepresented that Judge Moore was in fact appointed by the then-Governor of Alabama, fourteen years (14)earlier. Any reasonably acting attorney with a modicum of knowledge of judicial appointments, which are publicly advertised in legal newspapers and by other means, knows that numerous individuals are often consulted,including sitting judges, practicing attorneys, colleagues, opposing counsel and members of the community, prior to a governor or other executive officer making a judicial appointment. Mr. Thompson’s statements in those pleading and letters were made with reckless disregard for the truth and with callous indifference to disparage and humiliate both Judge Moore and Clatus Junkin.

    Verdict: Guilty
    As to Case No. SC07-80, Count II – 4-3.4 for knowingly disobeying an obligation under the rules of a tribunal; 4-8.2 for making statements that the lawyer knows to be false or with reckless disregard as to its truth or falsity concerning the qualifications or integrity of a judge; 4-8.4(c) for engaging in conduct involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit, or misrepresentation; 4-8.4(d) for engaging in conduct in connection with the practice of law that is prejudicial to the administration of justice, including, to knowingly or through callous indifference, disparage, humiliate, or discriminate against litigants, jurors, witnesses, court personnel, or other lawyers.

    Put that in your pipe and smoke it, Thompson!
  • 1/13/2009 9:31 PM chief judge surprise wrote:
    the rumor mill has it from a few sources that goldenberg and greene had a wingding of a pow wow on the 7 floor and there was some commotion over whose name was going to be placed for chief this friday. since goldenberg is desperate to vindicate the humility of having to campaign and the fact someone "dared" to run against her and greene who wants to flap his wings and show who is the boss. i bet both dont have the balls to run against tobin. time will tell all

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