Florida Attorney General Calls Krischer's Office Deceptive (Rush Limbaugh case)

Rush Limbaugh Web site ^ | 1/28/2004 | Pat Gleason

[68 grunt]

True conservatives will not make excuses for him.

True conservatives live on mountaintops.

[evets]

[man from mars]

They keep this up and RUSH'S rating will go through the Roof? This FSA guy is in big trouble. Rush, please sue the pants off these libs!

[ItsTheMediaStupid]

Rush knew what he was doing was both illegal and immoral.

Illegal? Depends on who you believe, I don't believe the white trash maid! Immoral, well I guess the next time the doctor gives me a drug that feels real good, I'll have to give myself 50 lash's for enjoying it. Even if he talked his doctors in giving him more than he actually needed, it's no more immoral than drinking too many bears. The stigma of being a controled drug is just that, a stigma, it makes it no more immoral than any other addictive substance.

[Prov1322]

Bar Ethics investigation Bump. oh there are so many rule violations....

Sadly, The FL Bar is not interested in ethics violations of this nature...the only ones they do go after have to do with misappropriation of funds.

[sheikdetailfeather]

Go Rush!

[floriduh voter]

Is this what Rush was talking about today re: FR? If so, I'm in the "right" place. Rush should beware. The system tried to starve Terri over here on the Gulf Coast. Rush might not be subject to starvation, but there's some vindictive members of Florida's legal system who would love to take him all the way to the Supreme Court and back.

[CyberAnt]

It's the same problem the democrats are having all over the place .. they are no longer able to play these untruth games with immunity. First of all .. they picked on the wrong guy to persecute. Secondly .. with the advent of the internet and conservative talk radio, there is now a counter to the mainstream media who were previously able to cover all this stuff up.

THE DEMOCRATS HAVE NOT FIGURED THIS OUT YET. They keep saying they have to counter the "right wing" .. but their only counter is to continue to lie about the "right wing". The liberal smear campaign just doesn't work anymore.

[RS]

Interesting that it apears the Miami Herald is now "in the loop" as far as internal communications between the AG and the SAO. Wonder who released this so fast ?

[longtermmemmory]

No you are very very wrong. All attorneys are diminshed by such games. The Bar can and should go after the SA for this Streisand.

[ItsTheMediaStupid]

How could the Miami Herald be in the loop when their story came out after another story and several press release's?

[Prov1322]

No you are very very wrong. All attorneys are diminshed by such games. The Bar can and should go after the SA for this Streisand.

No question that they should and perhaps they will due to the very high profile nature of the offense. My comment related to how ethics complaints from the general public are handled.

[longtermmemmory]

Complaint from the general public are handled the same way.

The complaints which cite specific rules and actions are forwarded to the attorney for response and that starts the process. You don't have to be a party to a case to report an ethics violation.

If the complaint is a crackpot complaint about some attorney acting sleazy without specifics or an indication of a rule violation, the staff attorney will drop the matter for lack of substance and not even tell the targetted attorney. There are not many crackpot complaints.

[longtermmemmory]

Attorney conduct is under the iron supervision of the FL SC. The Executive has nothing to do with it in FL.

The media is just plain stupid on this. None of them have any idea how the process works, they should find an attorney who has served on a grievance committee to find out the procedures.

The ACLU filed for permission to file a friend of the court brief to the 4th DCA of FL. (they are in it to protect medical privacy for abortion patients.)

Complaint goes to Bar Staff attorney who gives it the intitial review. The complaint is then forwarded to the targetted attorney for response. When that attorney responds the complaintant has the opportunity to file a rebuttal. Then the Bar Staff attorney reviews the file and makes a decision on whether it should go to a grievance commitee for review. This will go to committee. (CYA)

The comittee of volunteer attrorneys and at least one non-lawyer reviews the complaint for probable cause. If probable cause is found, the supreme court then assigns a case number. At this point the complaint becomes part of the public record. If the complaint dies in committee, it remains private. The case is assigned to a grievance judge, a volunteer, and a trial will be scheduled. It is a bench trial and trial is really too strong a word. The findings of the judge can be apealed to the FL SC. The FL SC can agree or even give a harsher penalty.

It would have just been easier for the SA to NOT LIE and ask a judge.