In the early 90's we had five years of experience with an attorney claiming to represent the subscribers of an organization called the "Christian Brotherhood".
This attorneys courtroom strategy was based on theocratic law, he walked into the Fairfax County Virginia courtroom with the bible as his law book. According to a private conversation with him my girlfriend had to be destroyed because she was a sinner. Facts did not matter to this attorney and the judges bent over backwards for him.
At the time we only noticed his letterhead and his theocratic bias. Then a real estate agent that was retained to sell the property looked into my girlfriends attorney and informed us that he was running for political office. I thought that the failure to note details, documents, years of state mental health counselors was distraction at the time, naively I believed that attorneys were supposed to have integrity.
Later on we found some bio's [1, 2] of the husbands attorney stating that was active in the conservative Republican party and it mentioned selecting future political candidates. I then looked up the attorney my girlfriend had retained and found that he was running as a conservative Republican. The pieces fit, the reason that he ignored a date, the years of counseling and documentation.
Since that case my girlfriend has had an attorney desert, we have had attorneys ignore evidence of an assault and disregard their clients wishes. Is it just the theater or are we on a Virginia blacklist ?
These are the Wolves in Sheep's clothing.....
I suspect that this is just the tip of the "accountability groups" iceberg.
In the early 90's when my girlfriend was trying to escape from an abusive husband he obtained an attorney that claimed to represent the rights of the "Christian Brotherhood".
The attorney the wife retained ignored documents, years of state mental health counseling and dates. The excuse the attorney used when the wife provided documentation refuting the claims of the Brotherhood attorney was - "professional courtesy" and "the courts allow a certain latitude".
The Brotherhood attorney told us in a private discussion that he was going to destroy us. His strategy included lying, obfuscation and having the Virginia courts ignore years of state counseling in favor of a biased Christian counselor. The irony was that while the wifes attorney ignored the state counselors, the Brotherhood attorney had the courts access her records starting a year after separation for a divorce determination. This period excluded years of cohabitation, abuse, stalking and assaults by the husband.
We found out that the Brotherhood attorney was politically active as a conservative Republican. We were told that the attorney the wife retained was running for political office as a conservative Republican.
The other irony was that the husband had told his wife that he was seeing a doctor to turn into a woman. Besides the abuse and a rape where he allegedly handcuffed her to the bed, poured alcohol down her throat and gave her to his friends, the husband wore her clothes ruining them.
It was such a dichotomy between what the Brotherhood attorney was telling the courts and what was known. But the Virginia courts found that this was an upstanding husband and good father.
Years later the son tried to commit suicide, the child had been a tool to "punish" the chattel from escaping. According to the child he had been ignored after the court battles, the daughter allegedly became the focus of the husbands attention. We had church members showing up in the day and a stalking husband at night.
Was our experience just a case of skilled attorney vs. a mediocre one ? I say that it was and that the Virginia courts demonstrated a Theocratic bias.
