Obviously I was found guilty in spite of the fact they couldn’t produce any physical evidence to collaborate the testimony. I was picked up about a mile from a DUI checkpoint by a chase car. I was then transported to the checkpoint where my blood was taken in an ambulance at the DUI check point where multiple blood samples had been taken.

I was never allowed to sign a seal verifying that it was in fact my blood. My request to the court at trial was could I have my own lab verify that it was in fact my blood. It was impossible that my BAC could have been that high and had I been able to subpoena the bar tender he could have verified that. They didn’t have my blood sample. when the investigating officer testified he didn’t even have the color of my car right. He said his probable cause was me speeding and I had a registration light out. I was never cited for either. I had a mechanic who would have testified that I in fact had no lights out. Even though I had told the officer I could have someone come and get my car he impounded it. When I got to trial the charges were DUI and an abandoned vehicle. I asked the officer why the charges had changed and immediately the DA stood up and said we withdraw the summary your honor. When I asked the officer which light was out he said he couldn’t remember. At that point I didn’t know how to file an appeal and as a result of the knee injury I was enduring I was unable to work and/or afford an attorney so I went back to Tn to stay with a friend until my knee healed up.

Now I am in a situation where my 89 yr old mother needs me to be in Pa to take care of her. The problem is I have a warrant for my arrest. I was afraid to put myself at the mercy of a court for sentencing that completely denied me of my constitutional rights. I was asking around about civil rights attorneys and your name came up. Is there anything I can do about this now?

Please help me and my babies !!! I have 12 years legal secretarial experience… was a juvie Judge’s secretary… 7 years working with HHS/DHS … and I KNOW WHAT IS BEING DONE TO US. State OOR [Office of Open Records] will not respond to requests for vendor payments.

Lynn Lombardozzi …. 610.8821.0123

All 96 senators present voted “guilty” on the first article, which concerned his time as a state court judge and his subsequent failure to recuse himself from matters involving a former law partner, with whom he was accused of trading favors for cash.

As part of a judicial disciplinary investigation, Porteous acknowledged that he had filed a bankruptcy proceeding under a false name, made false statements, concealed assets and gambling debts, and “solicited and received” money and gifts from attorneys who had cases pending in his court.

“It is now time for justice: justice for the American people who have been exploited by a judge who violated his oath of office,” stated U.S. Rep. Lamar Smith.

The lenient punishment initially imposed by the Fifth Circuit, and the secretive manner in which it was issued, caused some critics to question the conduct of the appellate court. Prior to the complaint against Kent, of the 671 judicial complaints filed in the Fifth Circuit from 2000 to 2007, none resulted in formal discipline.

Kent’s case manager, Cathy McBroom, accused the judge of touching her in a lewd manner without her permission on several occasions. “The abuse began after Judge Kent returned to work intoxicated. He attacked me in a small room not 10 feet from the command center where the court security officers worked,” McBroom stated. “He tried to undress me and force himself upon me, while I begged him to stop. He told me he didn’t care if the officers could hear him because he knew everyone was afraid of him.”

U.S. District Court Judge Edward W. Nottingham, became effective October 29, 2008. Nottingham, who served as the chief judge for the District of Colorado, came under fire when a messy divorce settlement with his third wife revealed salacious details about his personal life, and his problems steamrolled from there.

The first of four complaints against Nottingham was related to his admission in his divorce case that he had spent $3,000 during a single night at a strip club. Complaint number two was lodged by a disabled attorney who blocked Nottingham’s car with her wheelchair after he parked in a handicap parking space. The attorney said Nottingham identified himself as a federal judge and threatened her. He was fined $100 for the incident. A third complaint accused Nottingham of soliciting prostitutes using his court-issued cell phone and visiting an escort service’s website while at work. He was also accused of lying to investigators about the accusations. On October 10, 2008, a fourth complaint was filed after a prostitute testified that Nottingham was one of her clients and had asked her to lie to federal authorities investigating their relationship.

Quotes from Prison Legal News

The following true accounts improved and solidified the image of this illustrious body with the public.

—A former municipal court judge who resigned after being accused of sexually harassing a female public defender who had recently graduated from law school, as well as other attorneys who appeared before him, did not escape legal ethics discipline.
Although the Arizona Supreme Court could only censure Theodore “Ted” Abrams, 47, and prohibit him from serving on the bench again, because he is no longer a Tucson City judge, it also disciplined him as an attorney, suspending his law license for two years, according to the Arizona Daily Star and the Arizona Republic.
In June 2008, Abrams began an intimate, consensual relationship with a lawyer (“Attorney A”) whose private practice included criminal defense work. They engaged in sexual contact for several months and maintained a close personal relationship through April 2009. During and after the affair, Attorney A appeared often in cases before Abrams, who neither disqualified himself nor disclosed the relationship to the parties or other counsel.
152 P.3d 1183, 1186 (2007)). ABA Standard 5.2 is “appropriate in cases involving public officials who engage in conduct that is prejudicial to the administration of justice.” Under that standard, suspension is appropriate “when a lawyer in an official or governmental position knowingly fails to follow proper procedures or rules, and causes injury or potential injury to a party or to the integrity of the legal process.” ABA Standard 5.22.
Mark Badgett

RALEIGH — After being removed from office in 2008, former Surry District Court Judge Mark Badgett now is out of the legal profession altogether due to being disbarred.

That attorney subsequently appeared in court sessions Badgett presided over on “multiple occasions,” but the judge failed to disclose his business relationship to opposing counsel, including members of the local district attorney’s office. Such a relationship can be grounds for disqualification from cases involved.

The Oklahoma Supreme Court on Tuesday disbarred former Creek County District Judge Donald Thompson, saying Thompson’s repeated use of a sex device in the courtroom brought shame on the judiciary and the legal profession.

Former Judge Joan Benge, who was removed from the state bench in Jefferson Parish two years ago because her personal relationships influenced her ruling in a personal injury lawsuit, should forfeit her law license for 18 months for breaking attorneys’ rules of professional conduct, a state disciplinary panel has recommended. But since Benge, 55, of Kenner, voluntarily gave up her law license in February 2010 pending the outcome of disciplinary action, she would have already served out the proposed punishment should the Louisiana Attorney Disciplinary Board’s hearing committee recommendation stand.

Ohio Judge Loses Law License

TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — Ohio’s top court is suspending the law license of a judge who faced complaints of boorish behavior from the bench.
An Ohio Supreme Court panel says the judge from northwest Ohio behaved in an undignified and unprofessional manner toward lawyers and defendants in his courtroom.
Van Wert Municipal Court Judge Phil Campbell will lose his law license for six months according to decision issued Thursday.
Complaints against the judge accused him of calling a lawyer a derogatory name and using his position to make people do what he wanted.
The court panel says Campbell also asked defendants embarrassing questions about their personal affairs.

(Raleigh, N.C.-AP) October 6, 2006 – A North Carolina judge lost his law license Friday evening after the State Bar determined that he was dishonest and deceitful when he took the home and life savings of an elderly, senile woman.
The bar’s decision to strip former District Court Judge James Ethridge of his law license ended his 30-year career as an attorney and judge.
Ethridge’s judicial district covered Johnston, Harnett and Lee counties. He was accused of taking more than $14,000 and the home of Rosalind Sweet in 2001.
Ethridge broke down during his three-hour testimony Friday, saying his father would be disappointed in him.

An explosion of embarrassing news lately about claimed sexual and relationship misconduct by lawyers in positions of authority has cost two their careers.
A longtime Tennessee prosecutor has resigned, after a female defendant in a felony drug case provided text and voice mail messages to support her claims that he had requested sexual favors, according to the Associated Press and the Kingsport Times-News. Assistant Hawkins County Attorney General Doug Godbee, 57, had been asked to step down by the state attorney general from his job of 30 years.
And a married New York traffic court judge had his law license suspended for three years. Michael Dorsky, 60, “not only acted improperly in pursuing a personal relationship with the subject of an administrative hearing over which he presided,” says a New York State Appellate Division opinion, “but also engaged in a selective view of the evidence presented at [his disciplinary] hearing, ignored prior warnings about ex parte communications” from his employer, the state Department of Motor Vehicles, “and made false denials about his conduct to the Inspector General’s office.”

The governor of Wisconsin promised in a press conference earlier this week to seek the removal of a controversial district attorney accused of harassing two women and asking a third to attend an autopsy on a date, as soon as a citizen made the prerequisite complaint.
Now multiple citizens have stepped up to the plate, but none of the complaints is in the proper form, Gov. Jim Doyle said in a press conference. However, his office is working with the complainants to revise the complaints so that they are adequate to initiate a removal proceeding against Calumet County District Attorney Kenneth Kratz, reports the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

Meanwhile, the Wisconsin attorney general is among those criticizing the state’s Office of Lawyer Regulation for not taking action to discipline Kratz after he admittedly sent multiple text messages to a domestic abuse victim seeking a sexual relationship while overseeing the prosecution of her ex-boyfriend.

Roy L. Pearson, Jr., an administrative law judge in the District of Columbia in the United States, following a dispute with a dry cleaning company over a lost pair of trousers. Pearson filed suit against Soo Chung, Jin Nam Chung and Ki Y. Chung, the owners of Custom Cleaners in Washington, D.C., initially demanding $67 million
Former Ga. judges lose law licenses
Posted on February 28, 2011 2:16 PM
By Jessica M. Karmasek

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ATLANTA (Legal Newsline) – The Georgia Supreme Court on Monday accepted former U.S. District Judge Jack Camp’s voluntary surrender of his law license and disbarred former Alapaha Circuit Superior Court Judge Brooks E. Blitch III.
Camp, who has been a member of the Georgia Bar since 1975, admitted that in November he pled guilty to aiding and abetting a felon’s posssession of a controlled substance, possession of a controlled substance, and embezzlement/theft of public property, according to the Court’s two-page order.

In the case of Blitch — who has been a member of the Bar since 1961 and served as a superior court judge for 27 years — he entered a guilty plea to honest services fraud conspiracy in 2009. He was sentenced to three years probation and fined $100,100, according to the Court’s five-page order.
After learning of Blitch’s guilty plea, the Bar obtained a special master. Blitch filed a petition for voluntary discipline, seeking a one-year suspension.
The special master rejected the petition and held a hearing. Afterwards, the special master issued his report and recommendation.
The special master held that Blitch’s plea arose from a failure on Blitch’s part to abide by certain laws relating to ex parte communications and to notifying victims upon a proposed change of sentence of a criminal offender; that Blitch was never accused of “selling his office” or acting corruptly in a traditional sense, i.e., he was not accused of receiving or demanding or requiring anything for personal benefit.

Former judge loses law license due to legal problems — WGN
http://www.wgntv.com/…/Former-judge-loses-law-license-due-to-legal-pro...
Former judge loses law license due to legal problems. The Iowa Supreme Court made the ruling against Judge James A. Weaver.
Two lawyers accept bar discipline
September 4th, 2012 · No Comments · Discipline
A Springfield lawyer who took up with a gambling man 15 years ago has lost her law license for a year based on a federal felony conviction.
Sharon R. Connelly told a federal judge in 2007 she had no idea her friend, Raj Kumar Bansal, was running a gambling operation until he pleaded guilty to federal racketeering conspiracy charges, according to a published account.
Judge Claude Hilton acquitted Connelly of racketeering conspiracy, but found her guilty of conspiracy to commit money laundering. She got two years probation. Now, her conviction has cost her the temporary loss of her law license.
Connelly had retired as director of the Office of Inspector and Auditor at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission when she met Bansal in 1997. Federal authorities said Bansal was a ringleader of a organized crime family running a multimillion-dollar sports gambling operation from Fairfax County.
With hundreds of clients, the ringleaders organized illegal bets on football and trafficked in marijuana, a police official told The Washington Post in 2006.
The Virginia State Bar disciplinary board imposed Connelly’s one year suspension Aug. 24. The suspension was retroactively effective as of Jan. 1. Connelly will have to take 60 hours of continuing legal education before resuming the practice of law, according to the VSB.
Meanwhile, a Fairfax attorney has surrendered his law license admitting he fooled a client into thinking his cases were pending in the courts when, in fact, they were either dismissed or never filed in the first place.
Shannon M. Guignon agreed to revocation of his law license on July 30, according to the VSB.
Guignon acknowledged he fabricated settlement agreements and sent them to his client. The client eventually got wise and sued. The legal malpractice claim against Guignon reportedly was settled this year.–

Do you know who gets preferential treatment in Pennsylania’s courts? Guess?

“Then-State Sen. Vincent J. Fumo played a key role in crafting the gaming law, which said all legal challenges concerning gaming would be resolved solely by the Supreme Court. Fumo was later convicted of unrelated corruption charges, and is now in federal prison.” philly.com

That is correct. Saint Vincent wrote law guaranteeing that gaming industry disputes do not pass GO. Oh no. They proceed directly to our Supreme Court. Not bad, huh?

How about those kids imprisoned without legal counsel, for cash, that was used to purchase a condo in Florida, tax-free, by two of our Most Honorable Judges? Since they didn’t have a specially devised law to gain direct access to that Holy Court, why not donate that gorgeous, expensive piece of real estate to them, Judge Cleland? Which is more important, children or slots?

My hope and need now is to find some lawyer or prosecutor who is generous and willing enough to dedicate any effort in helping me and my family to bring justice to this legal case. Gage v. Warren Twp. NJ

This is your big opportunity speak out and let the world know about the corruption in Pennsylvania- don’t miss it! We need to all come together and fight the corruption!
William Windsor is bringing people together and doing an outstanding job of fighting the corruption in the US. Check out his web site at Lawless America to see what he is doing. http://www.lawlessamerica.com./