Two attorneys suspended for trying to protect the life of an elderly person from surrogate's court abuse. The person is dead. The attorneys' suspension continues.

Ok, when I started to criticize and investigate judicial misconduct in my state - through motions to recuse, FOIL requests, civil rights lawsuits, complaints to the New York Commission for Judicial Conduct (a glorified shredder, I know, but just to make the record), and, finally, when I saw that nothing else helps, through this blog - I was put into the disciplinary proceedings which remain pending up to now, and I was charged with criminal contempt (by the main witness to that alleged crime), simply for blogging about my disciplinary case and incompetence and misconduct of judges and attorneys involved in the case.

I was fined to death when any of my actions, no matter how legitimate, were considered "frivolous" in the "discretion" of the judges whom I sued and investigated and whose misconduct I documented.

I was risking my liberty when the object of my criticism attempted to put me in jail for exercising my 1st Amendment right.

I was, and am trying to continue, to protect people's (and my own) constitutional rights against the ruthless system perversely called "the justice system" where the main actors know and enforce the unspoken rule that there is no such thing as justice, only connections.

Even though what I was doing was rare among attorneys, I as a species, an attorney criticizing judicial misconduct, am not unique.

Courageous attorneys expose judicial misconduct in other states, too, usually with sad consequences.

Yet, they do that anyway, knowing what dire consequences awaits them.

In Illinois, two attorneys were suspended, and their suspension continues at this time, for trying to protect an elderly (relatively wealthy) person who wanted to live and die at home, in the loving care of her daughter and to pass away after receiving her rites from the Roman Catholic priest that the person knew for a long time and trusted.

Those simple pleasures were denied Mary Sykes by the court system, she was placed in the "care" of a guardian who put her in a nursing home (then into a hospice), denied her daughter access to her elderly mother, and finally, now the report is that Mary Sykes passed away in a hospice, while her money will go to attorneys in her surrogate's case.

One of the attorneys was suspended for allegedly "lying" about Mary Sykes case.

One thing I won't believe that she was "lying" about is that Mary Sykes preferred to stay at home to going to a nursing home.  Nobody wants to go to a nursing home.  Nobody wants to cede freedom of communicating with whoever she wants and making her own decisions. 

I bow to the attorneys who put their reputation and livelihoods on the line, and lost their law licenses, trying to save a life of an elderly person from abuse of the court system.  They did not save her, but they did make her plight public - at a great sacrifice to themselves., and as far as I know, the social media is picking up on elder abuse and surrogate court corruption.

The fight of these two honest attorneys Joanne Denison and Ken Ditkowsky, at a great personal sacrifice, may be saving lives as we speak and in the future, and not only in the State of Illinois.

Thank you!