Virginia a State of Corruption
All hope abandon, ye who enter here !
Prolog to the Diligent Virginia Attorneys
argumentum ad hominem
- In 2000 an Agency of the Supreme Court of Virginia, called the Virginia State Bar changed its policy.
- From addressing "strategy" with Code of Professional Responsibility to avoiding "strategy" with Professional Guidelines and Rules of Professional Conduct
- When a client complains that their attorney does not use evidence the Virginia State Bar responds that there is no wrong doing, they do not address "strategy", one is told that they have the option to retain another. According to the dictionary and the words in the Code of Professional Responsibility "strategy" used to be addressed, that it is no longer, identifies the context of the 2000 policy change.
- When a client makes a complaint to the Bar stating that their attorney did not represent them and they look for the compliant, expecting documentation so that others may not experience "poor strategy", it does not exist. This is because the Bar does not collect this metric and does not provide a means to identify a member that fails consistently. As long as the attorney files papers, shows up and does not sleep they are competent. The Bar's cover up and avoidance "strategy" ensures that the member is NOT accountable for their failures [?]
- When a victim follows the Bar's advice and approaches another member to address "legal malpractice" this member will repeat the Bar's mantra, that was the attorneys "strategy", that it would cost too much, that the client has "sour grapes", that it would be better if the client get over it and go on with their lives. We tried that too, my girlfriend had a breakdown.....
There is those "officer of the court", "friend of the court", "rule of law" and "Integrity of the legal profession" things that deceives the public into believing that there should be some diligence in this profession ?
- There might be one avenue that would identify a competent attorney, that would be to ask a Private Investigator which attorney they would recommend - I did not think of this after our police assault.
Our experiences identify that hiring an attorney does not mean a solution. The claim by the Agency of the Supreme Court of Virginia for ensuring a diligent membership is false, covered up by its "Guidelines" is a policy that provides a niche for corruption and profiteering.
- Law enforcement abuses are covered up, evidence and witnesses are lost.
I was assaulted twice by police [1, 2], regardless of my being right or wrong, with the second assault the following occurred.
- Attorney told me to accept a guilty plea deal because "the cops lie all the time, I would not be believed and store video would not matter".
- Judge went on a rant about how the prosecutors deal was too lenient, without hearing the case.
- Police did not collect the names of witnesses or the store video.
- Could not contact my attorney from jail.
- Letters to the Police Chief, Mayor, Potomac News (published our names and addresses) were not responded to.
- Letter to the Virginia Governor, Tim Kaine, resulted in a claim that ours was a local issue.
- Justice Department and FBI - no response.
This identifies that there is no oversight of this process and a citizen of the State or the Country cannot expect accountability for government abuses.
- The bottom line is that this site would not exist if Virginia officials had responded professionally and ensured diligent review of the issues that this site presents. Maybe if they had done their jobs my girlfriend would not have had her breakdowns.
But then we have
this change the rules initiative at the national level.
The Short List of Indiscretions
References
Articles
My Blog's
Contents
The "Dead Sea Scrolls"
I was informed that I was writing the "Dead Sea Scrolls"
here. I may not have made my intent clear and maybe it is a "rant". If it is a "rant" it is the implementation, not the system that I am "ranting" against. The intent of this site is to refute the claim by members of the industry that there are only a "few bad apples" in the barrel and that we, the client, did not research our prospective counsel diligently enough.
This led me to ask where one can find the metrics that would identify a prospective attorney who just processes their clients, from one who would diligently represent them. From our experiences I can only assume that to know whether one has retained a competent attorney they must have psychic abilities because unlike "Football", performance statistics are not maintained on these sanctioned members of a Bar. In Virginia, the Bar claims to enforce ethical behavior of their members, however I/we have discovered that the only thing that the Bar considers unethical is mis-filing, financial, not representing in court or desertion. What the Bar does not address or identify are "performance" failures that result in a client being damaged. I find it of interest that the Virginia State Bar
replaced the
Code of Professional Responsibility /
ethical canons with
Professional Guidelines and Rules of Professional Conduct in the year 2000.
This is not about vengeance or charity.
We / my girlfriend has been repeatedly told that she must be punished and pay for her mistakes. This is what the law demands from us. However when mistakes are made by those paid to represent us we are told that they are not accountable for their mistakes and failures. When mistakes and laws are broken by those in the employ of those that govern we are told that they are not accountable for their actions. These are not acceptable responses from those in "authority". Our experiences are representative of what is being implemented in this country by the current leadership an example being the Bush administration. From
crusading attorneys to
police brutality and failure to address by a leadership whose apparent goal is to profit off of the population. If there was a concern about professional integrity or the law, those responsible would review the issue, not rubber stamp it in their favor or avoid it.
It is July 2008 and we are here, our journey down Attorney Road continues......
What can one say about the Virginia State Bar an agency of the Supreme Court of Virginia whose policy is of
diligence today,
gone tomorrow.
Who needs integrity, competence or propriety - it is all considered "strategy" and the Virginia State Bar does not address such complaints, the ultimate in avoidance, so what if the members are preying on the citizens of Virginia it has no care as to "
Maintaining the Integrity and Competence of the Legal Profession."
It is July 2007 and we are here, our journey down Attorney Road continues......
After the
police assault in 2005 and the representation that we had for it, we gave up. I subscribed to a
Legal Service March 2006 who
put us in touch with their affiliate provider Law Firm to address my girlfriend's outstanding issue with
Citibank/Multiver Corporation and some debts - I still
wanted to address past issues but time had passed. With this company we thought we could have some accountability,
control over these attorneys.
My girlfriend had a
court date in August 2006, this service would not, could not provide an attorney for that
date even though my girlfriend notified them three weeks in advance. This resulted in a judgment against her, apparently because the
Citibank attorney went back to the judge and
lied about an agreement. It is now July 2007, the intent was to bankrupt my girlfriend, a plan we had in March 2006 and go on - this
Legal Service has yet to provide an attorney
for my girlfriends issues in spite of numerous complaints -
again, attorneys or their affiliates have become
our problem, not a solution. So I contacted the
Better Business Bureau for Oklahoma City , they responded that our complaint with this Legal Service and affiliated law firm was outside their purview,
because of court ? Ironically between the time that I had sent my complaint in to the BBB and their dropping it we were getting results, both the Law Firm and the Service were calling my girlfriend on a daily basis,
when the BBB dropped us the diligence stopped. This upset me so I reviewed our past
"Issues" and the
road we are on.
I have been looking at our experiences as being independent of each other, of the environment or shall we say theater of action. This is the wrong perspective to address our situation, this is the
information age where
statistics are kept on everyone and everything. Why bother to represent if the client has a record the client is
processed and
discarded, the client is
"presumed guilty". This is the "strategy" that the
Virginia State Bar
supports when it claims that it does not address "strategy" issues. An analogy would be if one were to hire a body guard, an incident occurs, the body guard blocks and parries a few times to make it look good and then exposes their client to the killing blow -
their strategy was that their client was not a client of choice - maybe the opposite side had a
better offer, it would be their profitable "strategy".
Historical Perspective
Prompted by our recent experiences I Google'd the attorneys of our past, starting with the
"Crusader", with
"Christian Brotherhood" on his letterhead.
Remembering the Christian
strategy used against us, the apparent
religious and
political
connections of this attorney and the real estate agents comment about my girlfriends attorney running for
political office. I thought just what
"lists" are we on,
once we have a "record" it is not easy to expunge it, whether it is a government list or a religious organizations list and given the zealousness of
husbands attorney's crusade
we are on one and possibly both.
I also read some of the articles that our
"Crusader" authored. I found this article,
The Dangerous Nature of Homosexuality and I
remembered the "zeal" with which this attorney persecuted my girlfriend who did not agree with the "lifestyle" choice of her husband and had left him before she met me.
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The pictures that are included on this site, are not done out of spite but to demonstrate the incongruities of the case at that time. The wife did not agree with the lifestyle choice of her husband, the last of a long line of abuses so she left with her child. The wife had these pictures
and both Mr. Mason and Mr. A. Strode Brent were aware of them. The second attorney used them effectively, Mr. A. Strode Brent
did not use them, claiming "professional courtesy". I cannot help but note the message that Mr. J. Michael Sharman authors and the "zealous" defense of this client.
Mr. J. Michael Sharman Crusading for his cross dressing client against the evil, murdering
housewife with a grade school education, a church goer, trying to escape with their children from an abusive husband who told her he wanted to become a woman. The husband's adultery and illegitimate child were never mentioned in court.
Mr. J. Michael Sharman is one that if you are male, abusive and claimed to be Christian you would want on your side, he was awesome, he blocked all actions. Maybe provided a reason for Ms. Judy A. Dugger to drop the "abuse of process" action.
Learn and remember this future attorneys, the best strategy is deceit, this theater is like a chess game where cheating is allowed, steal that piece, buy the opposition, clients are marks to be harvested - good strategy. Do not mis-file a
legal document though or do like my girlfriends "dog bite attorney" did.
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Reputation is NOT a factor -
We are told that "reputation" is a factor in this "market". I have been at this since 1995 when I questioned why
Ms. Judy A. Dugger dropped the "abuse of process", apparently reputation is not a factor.
This failed system so saturates the market that complaints or issues are irrelevant, desperate "marks" believe anything is better than nothing and given the corruption in the Virginia courts this is true. I observed that the
Virginia State Bar supports
the fleecing of the public when they changed from ethical mandates around 2000, where one could question their attorneys "strategy" to the "Professional Guidelines" that protects their members from such complaints.
As it stands I have no problem identifying our experiences to the public, maybe I am wrong, one must address our issues to be able to identify where I am wrong. The expectation is that we will give up, die or become a non-issue without their accepting responsibility for their failures and fraud.
