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Michelle Malkin: Bloggers under fire-Arizona conservative lawyer/activist targeted by left-wing Arizona State Bar
June 10, 2012 by 17 Comments
I watched part of the disciplinary trial against Alexander and the others as part of an assignment for my law class. I wasn’t sure what to think of their guilt until I watched the trial. Watching the trial, I saw a completely different set of evidence that was not reported in the media. Surreal. The judge ignored all of their evidence, and their evidence was not reported in the media. Alexander really got screwed the worst IMHO. She didn’t file the racketeering complaint (which was filed by Lisa Aubuchon), and produced several emails showing that her supervisor, the racketeering expert for the office, was in fact responsible for drafting and filing the following amended complaint. But the judge didn’t give a rats ass. He suspended her license based upon her filing the racketeering case. Since the county won’t fund their appeals, I doubt she will ever get a fair hearing on this. Appeared pretty clear to me that she was punished for being a well-known conservative blogger.
Kudos for taking the time to sit in for part of the trial.
Had you heard the entire trial, or had you read the Independent Panel’s decision, you would realize that you got some things wrong.
Alexander was never accused of filing the original RICO lawsuit, so any discussion about that is moot. As the Panel found, as is substantiated by the court documents and as Alexander admitted, she replaced (substituted) the original counsel, and by her own admission, became “on the hook” for the case. That’s why she was suspended and not disbarred.
Arizona, thank G-d, is a conservative state. The Bar is conservative, our judges are conservative. Read the opinion of the Independent Panel: http://www.scribd.com/doc/88741608/Andrew-Thomas-Disbarment-Ruling
The only non-conservatives in this mess are Thomas and his crew. I defy anyone to find any shred of support for the libelous contention that conservatives believe it is fine and dandy for a government official to abuse his office to seek revenge on his political enemies.
If you support Thomas, then you are not a conservative. Period.
I don’t know about the merits of the decision to suspend Alexander. However, it is not true that the State Bar of Arizona is conservative. The Bar is also notably biased against prosecutors and for defense attorneys.
By the way, what, exactly, is a “political enemy”?
If the Bar had been smart, they would have left Alexander out of this. They overreached and now there is going to be a backlash. It’s overdue for reform of the Bar, especially the disciplinary process. Talk to any attorney and they will tell you horrific stories of attorney discipline. Half the candidates who ran for the State Bar Board of Governors this last time around ran on a platform of reining in excessive bar discipline. Telling.
I’m a lawyer. I have no stories such as that to tell. Don’t know of any either. Indeed, I’d say the Bar is rather lackadaisical.
The transgressions of Thomas and his crew were egregious, and absolutely devoid of conservative principles.
Read the opinion: there is nothing conservative about Thomas.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/88741608/Andrew-Thomas-Disbarment-Ruling
What about poor supervisor Mary Rose Wilcox? Y’all are forgetting about her stress over being prosecuted for giving herself a sweetheart, illegal loan deal from Chicanos por la Causa in exchange for giving them thousands of dollars of our tax dollars in government grant money. Wilcox is the victim here, not the prosecutor. Even the $975,000 she awarded herself in settlement money, which will help her buy a 3rd new corvette, won’t compensate for the stress that poor thing underwent.
I hope Alexander sues the Bar and Supervisors PERSONALLY. She’s got a hell of a case against them for political vendetta.
Appreciate the American Post-Gazette and Michelle Malkin getting this information out. Did not know this side of the story, I don’t subscribe to the Arizona Republic since it’s full of crap and won’t report any of this. Michelle Malkin is a leading voice for conservatives and someone you can trust. If she’s done the investigation, you know there is truth to the story.
Finally a little sunlight from the outside. If there is enough the Bar cockroaches will scatter. The Arizona state bar has become one of the most corrupt organizations in the State. They rival Mary Rose Buttocks!
Maybe if we ever get conservative leadership again in the legislature this problem can be addressed. In the mean time expect more attacks on any conservative republican attorney that dares stand up to these bar lowlifes.
TruConserv,
Let’s get this straight. I did watch the entire and trial and read the opinion, which was a joke. It was clear to me that all three prosecutors got the shaft, since the judge ignored all of their evidence and based his decision upon the Bar’s evidence alone. It was like the prosecutors’ evidence didn’t exist! What a show trial. It will easily be reversed. You are showing your bias when you not only ignore that, but assert that Alexander, who was assigned to work under a supervisor who was the office expert on RICO cases and who actually took over the racketeering case, not her, should be suspended for 6 months and a day. Are you serious or do you work for the Bar? This will make a fascinating movie someday. IMHO, heads will roll, not sure who yet, whether it will be the Bar or their hand-picked disciplinary judge.
I seriously doubt you sat through the entire trial, especially given how you picked non-germane items from the same day or two of testimony to complain about – and then to have done so inexpertly (some might say dishonestly.) All as part of some “law class.” School and instructor name, please. You can stay anonymous, but let’s find the community college teacher of Crim Studies 101 that had you sit through the complete trial. (sarcasm).
The facts are very clear – there was no basis for the RICO case, a panel of conservatives heard all the evidence and gave as minor a sanction to Alexander given how she took the ball and ran with it.
Good news and bad news for you, assuming you are actually a student of some kind.
Ten years from now, you’ll know that what I am telling you now is the truth – that’s the good news.
The bad news is that I’m telling you that you’re acting and thinking like a fool if you think heads will roll – BECAUSE THE DECISION OF THE INDEPENDENT PANEL WAS BRILLIANTLY WRITTEN.
Thomas, et al, are NOT conservatives. There is nothing conservative about using government office to go after your political enemies. There is nothing conservative about an elected official bringing false charges, terrorizing families with lies, threatening life, liberty and personal wealth simply because the other party did not bend to that officials petty demands.
There is nothing conservative about Thomas and his cronies and I’d appreciate if you’d stop libeling the name of conservatives everywhere by pretending otherwise!
Brillantly written, you have got to be kidding. There are many factual mistakes and every inference was ruled in favor of the bar. The “independent” panel that spent time kissing up to Yvonne Wingnet who is a spokesperson for the BOS pretending to be a reporter. That being said Thomas and Aubuchon deserved to be disbarred for the RICO suit and the Donahoe charges. Donahoe made several bad rulings but that what judges do at times. The Stapley and Wilcox cases were very legitimate in my opinion. Rachel should have had a public censure at the worst. She was involved in trying to amend a flawed RICO complaint for a few weeks no one suffered anymore because of her actions. Rachel was in over her head and did depend on Peter Spaw.
Ignore TruConserv. He’s Ed Novak, an angry bitter little lawyer who was one of the defendants in Andrew Thomas and Joe Arpaio’s racketeering lawsuit. He spends all day long on the blogs railing against conservatives and prosecutors. He doesn’t have anything better to do, no one likes him. Sad state of affairs for a former president of the Arizona State Bar to sink this low. I used to be good friends with him, we used to have a lot in common. No more. He has such a vendetta against Thomas and Arpaio over the racketeering lawsuit that is all he ever talks about. I’m sick and tired of hearing about it. Ed, go spew your venom somewhere else. You got what you wanted, Thomas is disbarred. He’d better back off because at some point even the other members of the Board of Governors are going to get sick of it. I don’t want to get tarred with his vendetta going on and on which is why I have distanced myself from him.
You’re crazy.
ROTFLMAO!
Alexander, thomas, and aubuchon all deserves what they rec’d. As a second year student of law and the constant repitition of ethics and basics of law throughout, it is obvious these three either forgot/never learned/or ignored basic law ethics.
The AZ BAR actually prosecutes very few and only the most egregious actions cause them to act, so this left wing conspiracy crap doesn’t fly, esp when so many conservative lawyers could also see the audacity of their actions.
Uh, that’s not accurate that the AZ Bar only prosecutes a few attorneys and only the most egregious violations. HALF of the last round of candidates who ran for the AZ Board of Governors included in their platform reining in the Bar’s heavyhanded disciplinary wing. dg obviously has an agenda or he wouldn’t be posting such baseless statements against Thomas et al.
TruConserv, who is really criminal defense attorney Ed Novak, should be ashamed of himself. He teaches ethics seminars on the duties of attorneys not to comment publicly about cases, yet spends all day long leaving comments on Sonoran Alliance about the Thomas disbarment trial, which he was a part of. He testified at it, and was one of the attorneys Thomas had filed lawsuits against. Now he has litigation against Thomas. But since he is on the Arizona Bar’s Board of Governors and past president, he is untouchable. This hypocrite flaunts the law and has been getting away with it for years. Someone should collect all the comments he has ever left on this website and add up all of the Bar ethical violations. I bet he has broken almost everyone of them. The ACLU or Lawyer’s Guild might be interested in hearing how he pretends to be a conservative on this website, while breaking all kinds of ethical rules. I am a member of both organizations and think I will pass it along. The way this creeper keeps frothing at the mouth, he will end up undoing the disbarment of Thomas and selling out all of his friends along the way who helped get Thomas disbarred. His arrogance never ends.