Yaaaaaaaarrrrrrrreggggghhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!
Posted on 11/20/2021 1:49:29 PM PST by conservative98
The next legal battle for Kyle Rittenhouse may be with his former attorneys.
Two lawyers who briefly worked on Rittenhouse’s case — and helped raise $2 million to help get him released from jail as he awaited criminal charges — want their cash back, but the now acquitted teen’s family is fighting the move.
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Rittenhouse was released from jail while he was waiting for his trial in November after a $2 million bond was posted by his former attorney John Pierce, with a cashier’s check from his law firm Pierce Bainbridge. Former child actor Ricky Schroder and My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell were credited with donations that enabled Rittenhouse’s release.
Bond in Wisconsin legally goes back to whoever posted it after the trial is over, which would appear to be Pierce’s law firm.
A second attorney who briefly worked on the case, L. Lin Wood, said the funds were provided by his FightBack Foundation and should be returned to the organization, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported.
In February, the Rittenhouse family fired Pierce, and have since complained that he and Wood diverted money meant to help Rittenhouse.
“I suspect there will be a fight over that,” Rittenhouse’s current attorney, Mark Richards said, according to the Kenosha News. “John Pierce is the person who posted the bond. All that money was raised on behalf of Kyle. Lin Wood and FightBack say they are entitled to it.
“There was half a million dollars I think that came directly from [Kyle’s mother] Wendy Rittenhouse from money she raised,” he continued. “So there’s going to be a fight over that, and I’m just thankful there will be a fight over it.”
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My recollection was Schroder and Lindell gave to bail him out. They should get it back. I bet the prior attorneys want to skim off for their fees.
That money was raised for Kyle. I hope Wood doesn’t get a dime. The guy is a complete con.
Seems like simple fairness to say that the law firm shouldn’t be entitled to a $2 million windfall on this one. If they are going to give all or most of the money back to donors like Lindell, Ricky Schroder et al., then okay. But it doesn’t seem right that donations for a good cause (i.e., Kyle’s freedom) should end up as windfall profits for a law firm.
Lawyers are all about the money.
Kyle will be a multi billionaire before too long and everyone will get their cut ... just be patient.
Kyle just took all of the oxygen out of, not only the room .... but the nation.
I welcome the oxy starved coma.
I'm beat .... wake me for Ghiselle
I wouldn’t piss the family off as their pay day is coming.
The bastards that run go fund me would not approve or allow Kyle Rittenhouse to collect funds for his defense. They have no problem with BLM and antifa thugs using go fund me.
However, now that the trial is over I’ve read that Kyle can indeed set up a go fund me account to start to collect all the attorney fees that have racked up.
BTW ... Epstein didn’t hang himself ..... ‘night
The question of who the court writes the check out to is not the same as the question of who is entitled to the money. The rule, apparently, is the court returns to money to whoever paid it into the court.
Just because the check is written to the law firm doesn’t mean that the law firm gets to spend it. The law firm may be deemed to hold it in trust for the persons entitled to it. That happens all the time.
Better than arguing over a telephone on either side of a plexiglass wall
The money goes to whoever posted the bail. The donations for the bail flowed through an organization called Fightback Foundation. The bond was signed by John Pierce of the Pierce Bainbridge Law Firm, acting as agents for Fightback Foundation. Now that Rittenhouse has been acquitted then the money goes back to the foundation and not to Rittenhouse or Wood.
Lin Wood and Peirce did not post the bond with with their own money, so they are not entitled to it.
No one who donated intended for that money intended it to be for the eventual benefit of Wood or Pierce. There are, in effect stealing from their former client.
Not returning client funds is the surest way you get disbarred.
With all the money Wood made from representing Sandnann, why is he risking disbarred by arguing he is entitled to the money that did not come out of his own pocket?
Lin Wood and Pierce are going to lose this case.
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That’s mighty white of them.
Me, i donated the money and I want it back!
See my post #14.
Lawyers are all about the money.........and we need to remember:
If you are involved in litigation, instruct your lawyer from the get go.........he is NOT to accept any monies litigated on your behalf.
And put it in writing.
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