We're back live with another nice ethics puzzler which, no matter how it all shakes down, shows that your humble narrator is the one with the integrity here:
The continuing saga of the currently-suspended from practice Police Chief Dunn vs. suspended from practice Attorney King finds King providing two new emails to the Civil Court where he is suing Chief Dunn (as well as for the criminal trial if there ever is one).
In the first one, a colleague of his at the Nashua, NH Mayor's Ethnic Awareness Committee recognizes that his "good name" has been sullied by allegations that he sent a Demand letter to Jaffrey, NH Police Chief Dunn about a possible victim of police abuse without NAACP authority, resulting in an indictment for attempted felony extortion for "holding the police up to ridicule."
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King has noted that said indictment was issued 48 hours after he told NAACP and Jaffrey about his weblawg, critical of the situation which he feels they both ignored, and he cites, inter alia, an email from local NAACP president Gloria Timmons, who always knew King was not a licensed New Hampshire attorney, noting that the NAACP "loved and supported him," because he was a "go getter right from the start," but that "[her] job was to protect the image of the NAACP."
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Up to speed? Good. Because now it gets fun.
King has always contended that issuing a Demand Letter on behalf of a Civil Rights organization is not extortive conduct, as he notes in his arraignment day video at the courthouse steps at his website (may have to rt-click-save) and at least one noted attorney agreed with him over at Evan Schaeffer's Legal Underground, as reproduced herein and graphically-enhanced on King's blawg:
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Because of the second email, here, which Dunn's Civil Lawyer claimed in open court did not exist (this is the 4th or 5th such crucial email now) ---
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--- King also now contends that superlawyer Andru Volinsky, attorney for the suspended police chief in that case (nobody officially knows why he is suspended after 3 weeks) must be compelled in essence to testify against him, or at least his interests, by divulging the fact that King had conversations with him about Willie Toney back in the Day, when King, a former Ohio Assistant Attorney General and Civil Rights lawyer, had openly acknowledged that he was indeed not a licensed attorney and that he was seeking help for Willie Toney, who faced three (3) drawn guns and a body cavity search and a loitering charge, which he beat himself.
King had received Toney's name on a matchbook given to him at a law firm where Toney had sought help. That firm was not familiar with police abuse cases so the law clerk passed the number on to King, knowing he was a suspended attorney but volunteering as Legal Redress Chair for the Greater Nashua NAACP.
Is there any way that Attorney Volinsky may avoid testifying in the criminal or civil cases where King seeks to establish Good Faith? For an analysis of possible outcomes scroll down to ACT II.
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I've got a lifetime supply of Nomex for my detractors.