Limbaugh Attorney Black's Statement on Leaks from SAO

Rush Limbaugh Website ^ | 01-23-04

[AlwaysLurking]

Palm Beach State Attorney’s Office Dances Atop Their SUV, Releases Confidential Correspondence

Roy Black Comments on the State's Release of Confidential Correspondence

Miami, FL – January 23, 2004 – Roy Black, attorney for Rush Limbaugh, issued the following statement today regarding confidential correspondence that was released to the media by Palm Beach State Attorney Barry Krischer.

“My letter to Mr. Krischer regarding Mr. Limbaugh’s case asked that Mr. Limbaugh be afforded the treatment anyone else would receive. The State's response was preposterous, but consistent with their double standard in this case. The facts are: Mr. Limbaugh went to these doctors to relieve chronic, intractable pain; there was no doctor shopping. Mr. Limbaugh never considered accepting the State’s ludicrous offer. He was not going to plea to something he did not do. We sent them a letter suggesting Mr. Limbaugh be treated in a similar manner that others had been treated. They responded with a preposterous offer. Discussions ended at that time. At no time was there ever a plea agreement of any kind.

"What the records don’t show is that before we could draft a letter responding to the State, we received a phone call from a newspaper reporter, as a result of a leak by the State Attorney’s office, asking us whether Mr. Limbaugh had agreed to enter a plea. As I told the court last month, we think the State Attorney’s Office should be investigated for journalist shopping.

"What is most troubling here is the continued violations of Florida law and bar ethics by the State Attorney’s Office. One need look no further than the bold caption on top of my letter alerting everyone to the confidential nature of the communication. The disclosure of these highly confidential communications violates the Florida statutes, the rules of procedure and evidence, and the Florida Bar Rules governing professional conduct. Because the State has no case against Mr. Limbaugh they continually seek to discredit him in the media.”

[Howlin]

Is that required on FR now? Or just these threads?

[colorado tanker]

I agree.

I think Rush should be treated like anyone else, but he's not. This prosecutor is out for, to quote Indiana Jones, fortune and glory. He will be richly rewarded by the Dims if he can get Rush.

[CyberAnt]

Exactly right!!

[CyberAnt]

Well .. if the SAO keeps this up .. they are really discrediting themselves and all Black has to do is take advantage of it.

Releasing this letter is just disgraceful!

[CyberAnt]

And .. CNN has so much credibility .. yeah I can see where you would be willing to believe what they say instead of what Roy Black says.

I mean CNN man .. they only hid for 12 years ALL THE TORTURE GOING ON IN IRAQ .. Yeah, I'd believe CNN.

[ventana]

Notice how garbled he sounds by Friday. He's not clean yet. V's wife.

[CMAC51]

Rush Limbaugh is guilty of having become addicted to prescription pills and illegally obtaining them. He's admitted this.

I don't think he has admitted obtaining them illegally.

[CyberAnt]

"treating addicts as patients rather than criminals"

UNLESS YOU ARE A CONSERVATIVE WHO IS IN THE WAY OF HILLARY CLINTON RUNNING FOR OFFICE .. THEN .. YOU'RE DEAD MEAT!!

[Matchett-PI]

"And you've been getting answers for weeks. The fact that you don't like the answers, especially when they point out that your question is flawed, is not our problem."

BTTT! Right on! Hahahahaha

[CMAC51]

Rush was in so much pain that he was only able to play golf three or four times a week.

I believe Rush had indicated that his back problem is in the cervical area behind his larynx. Golf does put a tremendous stress on the back, but it is the lower back, not the area Rush has a problem with. If the pain in the cervical area is controlled by pain meds, I see no reason why Golf should aggrivate the situation.

[ValentinesDay]

Can anyone tell me how to take a photo from an attachment in an email and post it here?

[CMAC51]

And perhaps if he wasn't playing golf three or four times a week -- a game that places a huge amount of stress on the back -- he wouldn't have been in so much pain. And yes, I am a genius.

You give yourself to much credit, too freely. Golf does produce a lot of strain on the back, but it is the lower back. Rush's problems are in the Cervical area behind his larynx. Golf does not create any unusual strain in this area. Sitting in a chair watching TV actually creates more strain in this area. If the original discomfort is relieved by pain killers, the golf would not aggrivate it further. But, a Genius would already know that.

[MizSterious]

Ah, and with Limbaugh, there's a much bigger payload: he wields a lot of power with that radio show of his. Liberals would very much like to silence that voice--and if they can't silence it, they'll discredit the man. Westerfield, I suspect, was just convenient when they needed a good perp. People disagree with me, I know, but the two sources that would not and could not lie say he couldn't have done it, not alone in any event. Trial after trial, the evidence of insects and dogs are accepted as gospel--but not this one.

[Cicero]

Well, I thought the latest plea offer story was preposterous, nothing more than another propaganda hit piece. Nothing followed from the earlier stories either, although they claimed that a plea offer and deal were imminent.

The DA would have a VERY hard time convicting Rush of doctor shopping. The evidence I've seen, detailing the DA's allegations, clearly refutes it. Rush lives and works on both coasts and therefore, in my experience, needs several doctors. The number of doctors that the DA said were involved is perfectly reasonable. A doctor shopper would be someone who went to, let's say, a dozen doctors claiming back pain, and got them all to prescribe. It would also involve not letting one doctor know about the other doctors. Rush saw only four or five doctors, some of them specialists. That is not doctor shopping.

In order to prove such an unusual and seldom used charge, you would have to prove intent to consult doctors purely for the sake of feeding a drug habit, and I'm sure Rush can offer other reasonable explanations for consulting them.

[Cicero]

The photo has to be posted on an internet server and then linked from your post. If you don't have a usable web page maybe you can find someone else to host it for you.

[Matchett-PI]

"At this point, Limbaugh is entitled to the presumption of innocence"

Of course only intellectually honest people will be willing to presume a person is innocent before he is found guilty. And only a friend will be willing to give his friend the benefit of the doubt.

Many of Rush's enemies are well known. Others are hidden -- but not forever. Cockroachs always eventually crawl out of the woodwork and snakes out of their holes. They'll give themselves away eventually.

And the funny part is, that Rush is perfectly happy to be defined by who his enemies are. So am I. Hahahaha

[Matchett-PI]

How old are you?

[RS]

Strange that it has become a priority of the REPUBLICAN Florida Attorney General

http://myfloridalegal.com/PubBrief.nsf/0/58edcceedd397b3785256d720045199f?OpenDocument

[MississippiMan]

All I'm trying to figure out is why anybody who claims they are innocent and are being persecuted would ask for any type of deal to a prosecutor.

Easy and obvious answer, Howlin: Because they want to get on with their lives. Because they don't want to go to bed every night wondering if tomorrow will be the day they're charged. It doesn't matter if you're innocent; prosecutors can certainly still make your life a living hell.

It's super easy to sit back and theorize about what you would or would not do. It's a different matter when it's your reality. Thankfully, I've never been through anything like this, but I had a friend who did. He refused to deal, went back and forth with them for years without ever being charged. Spent every nickel he had on legal bills, and then the prosecutors said, "Ah, guess we'll move on now. Have a good life." That's reality. And that's why innocent people sometimes make deals.

MM

[RS]

"Prosecutors declined to comment on the letters, which were released to the South Florida Sun-Sentinel in response to a request under the state's public-records laws. Prosecutors consulted with the Florida Attorney General's Office and the Florida Bar before determining the letters are not confidential and had to be released as public records."


Gee, I wonder where somebody got the idea of asking for any public records regarding Rush ?