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A blood-curdling letter to the North Carolina State Bar:
http://www.askthelawguy.info/dissent/id4.html
Here's an excerpt:
This past Thursday and Friday, I watched as the North Carolina State Bar
prosecuted Mr. Hoke and Ms. Graves for their conduct, which led to Alan's
wrongful imprisonment and near execution and, ultimately, to the grievance
against them. The grievance alleged that they had knowingly made
misrepresentations to the court, failed to turn over exculpatory evidence as
ethically required of prosecutors, failed to adequately supervise non-lawyer
conduct upon which they relied to meet their legal obligations, and engaged
in conduct prejudicial to the administration of justice.
I have been a criminal defense lawyer for seven years now. It is all I have
done. In that role, I have seen many prosecutions in many courtrooms about
many alleged wrongdoings, ranging from traffic offenses to capital murder. I
have never seen a case as weakly prosecuted as I saw at the State Bar on
Thursday and Friday. In fact, it made me wonder why the Bar bothered to file
a grievance in the first place: not because I thought the grievance lacked
merit, of course, but because I saw very little effort to actually prosecute
it.
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Aside to Attorney Brad Bannon:
Hey, young lawyer, let your idealism die; or just kill it, lest it kill you.
I used to practice law in NC and learned in the '70's that the NC State Bar
is all about protecting its aristocracy, no matter if its bluebloods are a
little smelly with corruption. Purifying scoundrels and besmirching the
innocent are two of the chief roles of the NC State Bar. Amassing money is
another.
Hell, the state bar had a head who embezzled a small fortune in bar dues,
living the life of Riley off trust accounts that weren't his, and all they
did was suspend him. Joe Cheshire was his lawyer.
Just dive in and enjoy the sleaze; you'll never make it as an honest lawyer.
Model yourself after slimy Carolin Bakewell, who would crawl up a tree
backwards to commit chicanery, and you'll make big, fella. Or be a Hoke or
a Graves, because aristocracy and connections, not merit, count. And every
time you get your hands caught in the cookie jar they'll come and be
character witnesses for you and tell how you, like Hoke and Graves, are the
very pink of saintliness.
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