Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Time to get your heads out of the ... maybe, sand, colleagues?

More and more people get referred to me by attorneys who don't want to "be blackballed" by the judiciary, and for that reason do not want to provide to their clients services that their clients need, like making a motion to recuse against a judge who the referring attorneys know is biased and needs to be disqualified.

When referring such clients you, dear colleagues, know that I was already sanctioned for making motions to recuse, and that an attorney can be severely sanctioned for stepping into a case only to recuse a judge.  But you don't care about me, do you?

When referring such clients, you tell them that you don't want to be blackballed by even making a motion to recuse (a completely legal thing to do, isn't it), but that I have nothing to lose in risking yet another sanction on behalf of your clients that you do not to serve properly.

You took an oath of office, same as I did.

You pledged to zealously protect interests of your clients and to uphold the laws and the Constitutions of the State of New York and of the United States of America, same as I did.

Yet, when it comes to actually practice what you preached when taking that oath of office, you refuse to do that because the supposedly honorable judges will retaliate against you for doing your job?

And rules of attorney discipline require you to report that judicial misconduct, but you never do, again because you are afraid?

And you call yourself members of an honorable profession?

And you know that the judge is retaliating against me for doing my job on behalf of my clients, including indigent and pro bono clients, and do nothing to step in because the bell is now tolling not for you?

You know, don't you, that such behavior is not exactly honorable?

Don't you think there may come a time for every attorney when he or she will have to do that moral choice and make that motion to recuse, maybe on your own behalf - and you will be in my position then?

Who will help you then?

You know, don't you, that everybody will be then sitting in the bushes afraid to speak in your defense, same as you are doing now with me?

Don't you think there would have to come a time to demand that the "rules of the game" be changed so that your oath can mean something real?

Don't you think there would have to come a time when people will start asking questions why this "honorable" legal profession is in fact so cowardly in failing to protect the public from judicial misconduct?

Don't you feel ashamed when you refer your clients, including paying clients, to me simply because you are cowards and do not have the guts to do your own job properly?

You should be.

But - of course, I cannot tell you how to live your lives.  If you want to live with your heads deeply in ... let's say, the sand ... it is your choice.  And a matter of your conscience.

But - don't you think it would be actually more prudent, in the long run, to get together, make and implement and plan to clean up the corrupt and dirty stables of our state and federal judiciaries instead of pretending you are part of the honorable profession while you are brown-nosing judges you know to be incompetent, biased and sometimes openly corrupt?

It is better to clean up a festering wound when you see it than to allow it to turn into a gangrene that will make the system beyond redemption.

Remember my words when this filth - who knows - starts affecting your own life, not just the lives of your clients who you refuse to protect despite your duty to do so.

Your conscience, your life, your oath of office, your choice.



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