Posted on 05/05/2011 6:03:13 PM PDT by smokingfrog
The Morgan & Morgan law firm and an Orlando attorney who previously worked there are being sued for legal malpractice in their handling of a suit that was filed in a 2009 murder-suicide at a Casselberry gun range.
Marvin Moore, representing the estate of his son, Mitchell Lee Moore, is seeking more than $15,000 in damages from the Morgan & Morgan law firm and attorney Carolyn M. Salzmann, who left the firm last year and owns The Salzmann Firm in downtown Orlando.
Mitchell Lee Moore of Altamonte Springs was killed in April 2009 after he and his mother, 44-year-old Marie Lynn Moore, went to the Shoot Straight gun range and rented handguns for target practice.
A security camera captured the shooting. Moore, 20, and his mother were standing close to each other, both holding handguns, both wearing ear protectors, the video shows.
As her son prepared to fire, Marie Moore shot him once from behind. He fell to the floor and died.
Casselberry police said she then opened her mouth, inserted the pistol and fired once. She died a short time later at a hospital.
Moore's father filed a wrongful-death suit, accusing the business of failing to protect his son from his ex-wife. He was represented by Salzmann of the Morgan & Morgan law firm.
The suit was dropped in late January 2010 and because it was dismissed "with prejudice," it can not be refiled, said Kissimmee attorney Jose F. Garcia, who represents Moore in the suit against Salzmann and Morgan & Morgan. That suit was filed last month in circuit court in Seminole County.
"The case against Shoot Straight is absolutely dead," Garcia said.
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Are you kidding me?
Moore’s father filed a wrongful-death suit, accusing the business of failing to protect his son from his ex-wife
Again, are you kidding me? The shooting range is responsible for protecting his sons life against his wife? And where does this idiot fathers responsiblility lie? The worlds gone stupid!
I don’t think I’d want to be his attorney in this matter. That’s probably the next person on his litigation parade.
I get that he is hurting, lawsuit won’t help that.
Some people have no shame.
Our reaction here exactly. We regularly go to an indoor range to shoot her Glock .40 cal semi-auto, S&W .38, and my Ruger .357 magnum heavy-barrel. You’re pretty much on your own once you walk through those doors and everyone knows it. A lunatic could take a pistol and walk down the line and gun down everyone, then continue inside...
Whatever. B.S. lawsuit. Sorry for the death of the young man and the foolish woman’s suicide.....but s**t happens. Not the range personnel’s fault in the slightest, unless someone has commoditized the Vulcan mind-meld.
Gee whiz ronnie You might be right !
I’ll never go to an indoor shooting range again, I think.
Two times I’ve been to ranges and learned of recent suicides, and one of those was just hours before I got there and the owner told us they’re closed for at least another day. There was a cleaning crew mopping up.
Another time I was in my lane and some guy three lanes down decided to discharge his .357 through the side panels into the roof above the guy’s head two lanes over.
Forget indoor ranges.
Years ago, a sniper put a round through my right eyebrow and the bullet continued across my face without causing a single drop of blood. I could feel the heat of the bullet above my eye and thought I had been burned, that’s how close it was. When He decides you’ll leave this earth that’s when it will happen. Not a moment before or after.
Sure some places are more dangerous than others. I don’t frequent indoor or outdoor ranges only because I have other options, lots of wide open spaces close by where I can go shooting after the sun goes down.
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