http://myshingle.com/2010/01/articles/ethics-malpractice-issues/a-travesty-of-justice-in-colorado-lawyer-suspended-for-a-year-and-a-day-for-winning-his-clients-case/ Great Things Come in Small [Law] Practices! Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:09:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://myshingle.com/2010/01/articles/ethics-malpractice-issues/a-travesty-of-justice-in-colorado-lawyer-suspended-for-a-year-and-a-day-for-winning-his-clients-case/comment-page-1/#comment-3323 Peter Fri, 02 Apr 2010 04:22:10 +0000 http://174.120.83.8/~sh1ngl3/2010/01/articles/uncategorized/a-travesty-of-justice-in-colorado-lawyer-suspended-for-a-year-and-a-day-for-winning-his-clients-case/#comment-3323 Mark, You have experienced what I believe sadly is the norm of the Colorado Judicial Branch. It has become so flagrant and the "players" so comfortable in their roles that there is no possibility of correcting it. Think about it. What can you or anyone possibly do to overcome the corruption that has become so deeply imbeded in every facet of our government. Yes, you can try and fight it, but for what purpose? Unless you resign yourself to the role of bending your knee and bowing your head; life will be very difficult for you as an attorney in Colorado. The system will eventually collapse but until then, I see no valid remedy other than standing on the side line and watch it happen. Your experience is yet another example of the rapid implosion of the U.S.. Here's wishing you only the best in whatever direction you head. Mark,
You have experienced what I believe sadly is the norm of the Colorado Judicial Branch. It has become so flagrant and the “players” so comfortable in their roles that there is no possibility of correcting it. Think about it. What can you or anyone possibly do to overcome the corruption that has become so deeply imbeded in every facet of our government. Yes, you can try and fight it, but for what purpose? Unless you resign yourself to the role of bending your knee and bowing your head; life will be very difficult for you as an attorney in Colorado. The system will eventually collapse but until then, I see no valid remedy other than standing on the side line and watch it happen. Your experience is yet another example of the rapid implosion of the U.S.. Here’s wishing you only the best in whatever direction you head.

]]> http://myshingle.com/2010/01/articles/ethics-malpractice-issues/a-travesty-of-justice-in-colorado-lawyer-suspended-for-a-year-and-a-day-for-winning-his-clients-case/comment-page-1/#comment-7484 Peter Fri, 02 Apr 2010 04:22:00 +0000 http://174.120.83.8/~sh1ngl3/2010/01/articles/uncategorized/a-travesty-of-justice-in-colorado-lawyer-suspended-for-a-year-and-a-day-for-winning-his-clients-case/#comment-7484 Mark, You have experienced what I believe sadly is the norm of the Colorado Judicial Branch. It has become so flagrant and the "players" so comfortable in their roles that there is no possibility of correcting it. Think about it. What can you or anyone possibly do to overcome the corruption that has become so deeply imbeded in every facet of our government. Yes, you can try and fight it, but for what purpose? Unless you resign yourself to the role of bending your knee and bowing your head; life will be very difficult for you as an attorney in Colorado. The system will eventually collapse but until then, I see no valid remedy other than standing on the side line and watch it happen. Your experience is yet another example of the rapid implosion of the U.S.. Here's wishing you only the best in whatever direction you head. Mark,
You have experienced what I believe sadly is the norm of the Colorado Judicial Branch. It has become so flagrant and the “players” so comfortable in their roles that there is no possibility of correcting it. Think about it. What can you or anyone possibly do to overcome the corruption that has become so deeply imbeded in every facet of our government. Yes, you can try and fight it, but for what purpose? Unless you resign yourself to the role of bending your knee and bowing your head; life will be very difficult for you as an attorney in Colorado. The system will eventually collapse but until then, I see no valid remedy other than standing on the side line and watch it happen. Your experience is yet another example of the rapid implosion of the U.S.. Here’s wishing you only the best in whatever direction you head.

]]> http://myshingle.com/2010/01/articles/ethics-malpractice-issues/a-travesty-of-justice-in-colorado-lawyer-suspended-for-a-year-and-a-day-for-winning-his-clients-case/comment-page-1/#comment-3322 Mark Brennan Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:21:50 +0000 http://174.120.83.8/~sh1ngl3/2010/01/articles/uncategorized/a-travesty-of-justice-in-colorado-lawyer-suspended-for-a-year-and-a-day-for-winning-his-clients-case/#comment-3322 Hi, Timothy: The Denver Post is a complaisant mouthpiece for the corrupt Democrat cabal that runs the City of Denver. The Post article is willfully inaccurate in many respects. The Post reporter had all the facts, but deliberately distorted or misreported them, so as to portray me in a false light. I did not "accuse" her father of being a Klan member. I asked the clerk, a redneck from Alabama, whether her Daddy was a Klan member, in order to explore the reason for her otherwise inexplicably deep-seated hostility to me (a plaintiff's civil rights lawyer). This was fair exploration of personal bias, and should have been permitted. The Klan once ran Colorado, and I suspect the federal judge for whom she works is descended from Klan members. The PDJ, a moronic lapdog of my enemies who had already made plain his predetermination of the case, rescued her from having to answer. From the look on her face when I asked the question, I believe the truthful answer would have been, "Yes." My job in the federal trial was not to please a corrupt judge who was doing his best to defeat me, but to persuade the jury of the justice of my client's cause. I did so, extremely successfully. The ethics trial was a Stalinist show trial, orchestrated by the City of Denver and its friends in the Colorado Supreme Court to make an example of me to any other small firm or solo atty. who would, as I did, see the corrupt and arrogant City of Denver as a fat target. It is natural (indeed, one of the greatest weaknesses to which lawyers often succumb) to want to believe that the same thing could not happen to you because you are so much more intelligent and attuned to the subtleties of trial practice. Don't kid yourself. I won the case, REALLY BIG, because I grasp the subtleties of trial practice very well, and tried the case, for the most part, masterfully well. The City's lawyer's did not. That contributed to their humiliating loss, from which a corrupt federal judge rescued them, probably in exchange for favors the City, with its power to dispense billions in contracts and other favors to major forces in both parties, did for his powerful masters. We have the best system of justice, and government, money can buy. That is the reality, not that I am, as unjustly portrayed by my enemies, a buffoon. If, however, it is too debilitating to accept that our system never has provided, and never will provide, "Equal Justice for All", please continue in your self-delusion. It is an essential characteristic of any advocate for the little guy. I too once suffered from it. No more. Best regards, Mark Hi, Timothy:
The Denver Post is a complaisant mouthpiece for the corrupt Democrat cabal that runs the City of Denver.
The Post article is willfully inaccurate in many respects. The Post reporter had all the facts, but deliberately distorted or misreported them, so as to portray me in a false light.
I did not “accuse” her father of being a Klan member.
I asked the clerk, a redneck from Alabama, whether her Daddy was a Klan member, in order to explore the reason for her otherwise inexplicably deep-seated hostility to me (a plaintiff’s civil rights lawyer).
This was fair exploration of personal bias, and should have been permitted. The Klan once ran Colorado, and I suspect the federal judge for whom she works is descended from Klan members.
The PDJ, a moronic lapdog of my enemies who had already made plain his predetermination of the case, rescued her from having to answer.
From the look on her face when I asked the question, I believe the truthful answer would have been, “Yes.”
My job in the federal trial was not to please a corrupt judge who was doing his best to defeat me, but to persuade the jury of the justice of my client’s cause. I did so, extremely successfully.
The ethics trial was a Stalinist show trial, orchestrated by the City of Denver and its friends in the Colorado Supreme Court to make an example of me to any other small firm or solo atty. who would, as I did, see the corrupt and arrogant City of Denver as a fat target.
It is natural (indeed, one of the greatest weaknesses to which lawyers often succumb) to want to believe that the same thing could not happen to you because you are so much more intelligent and attuned to the subtleties of trial practice.
Don’t kid yourself.
I won the case, REALLY BIG, because I grasp the subtleties of trial practice very well, and tried the case, for the most part, masterfully well.
The City’s lawyer’s did not. That contributed to their humiliating loss, from which a corrupt federal judge rescued them, probably in exchange for favors the City, with its power to dispense billions in contracts and other favors to major forces in both parties, did for his powerful masters.
We have the best system of justice, and government, money can buy. That is the reality, not that I am, as unjustly portrayed by my enemies, a buffoon.
If, however, it is too debilitating to accept that our system never has provided, and never will provide, “Equal Justice for All”, please continue in your self-delusion. It is an essential characteristic of any advocate for the little guy. I too once suffered from it. No more.
Best regards,
Mark

]]> http://myshingle.com/2010/01/articles/ethics-malpractice-issues/a-travesty-of-justice-in-colorado-lawyer-suspended-for-a-year-and-a-day-for-winning-his-clients-case/comment-page-1/#comment-7483 Mark Brennan Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:21:00 +0000 http://174.120.83.8/~sh1ngl3/2010/01/articles/uncategorized/a-travesty-of-justice-in-colorado-lawyer-suspended-for-a-year-and-a-day-for-winning-his-clients-case/#comment-7483 Hi, Timothy: The Denver Post is a complaisant mouthpiece for the corrupt Democrat cabal that runs the City of Denver. The Post article is willfully inaccurate in many respects. The Post reporter had all the facts, but deliberately distorted or misreported them, so as to portray me in a false light. I did not "accuse" her father of being a Klan member. I asked the clerk, a redneck from Alabama, whether her Daddy was a Klan member, in order to explore the reason for her otherwise inexplicably deep-seated hostility to me (a plaintiff's civil rights lawyer). This was fair exploration of personal bias, and should have been permitted. The Klan once ran Colorado, and I suspect the federal judge for whom she works is descended from Klan members. The PDJ, a moronic lapdog of my enemies who had already made plain his predetermination of the case, rescued her from having to answer. From the look on her face when I asked the question, I believe the truthful answer would have been, "Yes." My job in the federal trial was not to please a corrupt judge who was doing his best to defeat me, but to persuade the jury of the justice of my client's cause. I did so, extremely successfully. The ethics trial was a Stalinist show trial, orchestrated by the City of Denver and its friends in the Colorado Supreme Court to make an example of me to any other small firm or solo atty. who would, as I did, see the corrupt and arrogant City of Denver as a fat target. It is natural (indeed, one of the greatest weaknesses to which lawyers often succumb) to want to believe that the same thing could not happen to you because you are so much more intelligent and attuned to the subtleties of trial practice. Don't kid yourself. I won the case, REALLY BIG, because I grasp the subtleties of trial practice very well, and tried the case, for the most part, masterfully well. The City's lawyer's did not. That contributed to their humiliating loss, from which a corrupt federal judge rescued them, probably in exchange for favors the City, with its power to dispense billions in contracts and other favors to major forces in both parties, did for his powerful masters. We have the best system of justice, and government, money can buy. That is the reality, not that I am, as unjustly portrayed by my enemies, a buffoon. If, however, it is too debilitating to accept that our system never has provided, and never will provide, "Equal Justice for All", please continue in your self-delusion. It is an essential characteristic of any advocate for the little guy. I too once suffered from it. No more. Best regards, Mark Hi, Timothy:
The Denver Post is a complaisant mouthpiece for the corrupt Democrat cabal that runs the City of Denver.
The Post article is willfully inaccurate in many respects. The Post reporter had all the facts, but deliberately distorted or misreported them, so as to portray me in a false light.
I did not “accuse” her father of being a Klan member.
I asked the clerk, a redneck from Alabama, whether her Daddy was a Klan member, in order to explore the reason for her otherwise inexplicably deep-seated hostility to me (a plaintiff’s civil rights lawyer).
This was fair exploration of personal bias, and should have been permitted. The Klan once ran Colorado, and I suspect the federal judge for whom she works is descended from Klan members.
The PDJ, a moronic lapdog of my enemies who had already made plain his predetermination of the case, rescued her from having to answer.
From the look on her face when I asked the question, I believe the truthful answer would have been, “Yes.”
My job in the federal trial was not to please a corrupt judge who was doing his best to defeat me, but to persuade the jury of the justice of my client’s cause. I did so, extremely successfully.
The ethics trial was a Stalinist show trial, orchestrated by the City of Denver and its friends in the Colorado Supreme Court to make an example of me to any other small firm or solo atty. who would, as I did, see the corrupt and arrogant City of Denver as a fat target.
It is natural (indeed, one of the greatest weaknesses to which lawyers often succumb) to want to believe that the same thing could not happen to you because you are so much more intelligent and attuned to the subtleties of trial practice.
Don’t kid yourself.
I won the case, REALLY BIG, because I grasp the subtleties of trial practice very well, and tried the case, for the most part, masterfully well.
The City’s lawyer’s did not. That contributed to their humiliating loss, from which a corrupt federal judge rescued them, probably in exchange for favors the City, with its power to dispense billions in contracts and other favors to major forces in both parties, did for his powerful masters.
We have the best system of justice, and government, money can buy. That is the reality, not that I am, as unjustly portrayed by my enemies, a buffoon.
If, however, it is too debilitating to accept that our system never has provided, and never will provide, “Equal Justice for All”, please continue in your self-delusion. It is an essential characteristic of any advocate for the little guy. I too once suffered from it. No more.
Best regards,
Mark

]]> http://myshingle.com/2010/01/articles/ethics-malpractice-issues/a-travesty-of-justice-in-colorado-lawyer-suspended-for-a-year-and-a-day-for-winning-his-clients-case/comment-page-1/#comment-3321 Timothy R. Hughes Sun, 17 Jan 2010 10:09:07 +0000 http://174.120.83.8/~sh1ngl3/2010/01/articles/uncategorized/a-travesty-of-justice-in-colorado-lawyer-suspended-for-a-year-and-a-day-for-winning-his-clients-case/#comment-3321 From the article linked: "At one point, Brennan accused Blackburn's clerk's father — who hails from the South — of being a member of the Ku Klux Klan and called the disciplinary panel a "kangaroo court."" Is this accurate? I am curious, if the answer is yes, what other things were said? I am going to hold off on judgment beyond saying that part of zealous advocacy is figuring out how to reach and persuade judges, not piss them off. From the article linked:
“At one point, Brennan accused Blackburn’s clerk’s father — who hails from the South — of being a member of the Ku Klux Klan and called the disciplinary panel a “kangaroo court.”"
Is this accurate? I am curious, if the answer is yes, what other things were said? I am going to hold off on judgment beyond saying that part of zealous advocacy is figuring out how to reach and persuade judges, not piss them off.

]]> http://myshingle.com/2010/01/articles/ethics-malpractice-issues/a-travesty-of-justice-in-colorado-lawyer-suspended-for-a-year-and-a-day-for-winning-his-clients-case/comment-page-1/#comment-7482 Timothy R. Hughes Sun, 17 Jan 2010 10:09:00 +0000 http://174.120.83.8/~sh1ngl3/2010/01/articles/uncategorized/a-travesty-of-justice-in-colorado-lawyer-suspended-for-a-year-and-a-day-for-winning-his-clients-case/#comment-7482 From the article linked: "At one point, Brennan accused Blackburn's clerk's father — who hails from the South — of being a member of the Ku Klux Klan and called the disciplinary panel a "kangaroo court."" Is this accurate? I am curious, if the answer is yes, what other things were said? I am going to hold off on judgment beyond saying that part of zealous advocacy is figuring out how to reach and persuade judges, not piss them off. From the article linked:
“At one point, Brennan accused Blackburn’s clerk’s father — who hails from the South — of being a member of the Ku Klux Klan and called the disciplinary panel a “kangaroo court.”"
Is this accurate? I am curious, if the answer is yes, what other things were said? I am going to hold off on judgment beyond saying that part of zealous advocacy is figuring out how to reach and persuade judges, not piss them off.

]]> http://myshingle.com/2010/01/articles/ethics-malpractice-issues/a-travesty-of-justice-in-colorado-lawyer-suspended-for-a-year-and-a-day-for-winning-his-clients-case/comment-page-1/#comment-3320 Adrianos Facchetti Thu, 14 Jan 2010 15:53:52 +0000 http://174.120.83.8/~sh1ngl3/2010/01/articles/uncategorized/a-travesty-of-justice-in-colorado-lawyer-suspended-for-a-year-and-a-day-for-winning-his-clients-case/#comment-3320 I agree with Peter Mullison's comment above. I also recently filed a case in Colorado. I sure hope that this type of situation is not commonplace in Colorado--I presume that it's not. I agree with Peter Mullison’s comment above. I also recently filed a case in Colorado. I sure hope that this type of situation is not commonplace in Colorado–I presume that it’s not.

]]> http://myshingle.com/2010/01/articles/ethics-malpractice-issues/a-travesty-of-justice-in-colorado-lawyer-suspended-for-a-year-and-a-day-for-winning-his-clients-case/comment-page-1/#comment-7481 Adrianos Facchetti Thu, 14 Jan 2010 15:53:00 +0000 http://174.120.83.8/~sh1ngl3/2010/01/articles/uncategorized/a-travesty-of-justice-in-colorado-lawyer-suspended-for-a-year-and-a-day-for-winning-his-clients-case/#comment-7481 I agree with Peter Mullison's comment above. I also recently filed a case in Colorado. I sure hope that this type of situation is not commonplace in Colorado--I presume that it's not. I agree with Peter Mullison’s comment above. I also recently filed a case in Colorado. I sure hope that this type of situation is not commonplace in Colorado–I presume that it’s not.

]]> http://myshingle.com/2010/01/articles/ethics-malpractice-issues/a-travesty-of-justice-in-colorado-lawyer-suspended-for-a-year-and-a-day-for-winning-his-clients-case/comment-page-1/#comment-3319 Erik Wed, 13 Jan 2010 17:57:22 +0000 http://174.120.83.8/~sh1ngl3/2010/01/articles/uncategorized/a-travesty-of-justice-in-colorado-lawyer-suspended-for-a-year-and-a-day-for-winning-his-clients-case/#comment-3319 Mike, He fabricated an appellate record. What part of 'candor to the tribunal' is even remotely arguable? Mike,
He fabricated an appellate record. What part of ‘candor to the tribunal’ is even remotely arguable?

]]> http://myshingle.com/2010/01/articles/ethics-malpractice-issues/a-travesty-of-justice-in-colorado-lawyer-suspended-for-a-year-and-a-day-for-winning-his-clients-case/comment-page-1/#comment-7480 Erik Wed, 13 Jan 2010 17:57:00 +0000 http://174.120.83.8/~sh1ngl3/2010/01/articles/uncategorized/a-travesty-of-justice-in-colorado-lawyer-suspended-for-a-year-and-a-day-for-winning-his-clients-case/#comment-7480 Mike, He fabricated an appellate record. What part of 'candor to the tribunal' is even remotely arguable? Mike,
He fabricated an appellate record. What part of ‘candor to the tribunal’ is even remotely arguable?

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