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MA: Overaggressive investigation of judge nets two disbarment

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

On ABAJournal.com is this interesting story from yesterday: Former Ethics Counsel Disbarred Over Investigation of Judge: Two Massachusetts lawyers, including the former ethics counsel for two state governors, were disbarred today because of their aggressive investigation of a judge who ruled against their clients in 1995 in a high-profile family battle over control of a supermarket chain. The efforts of Gary C. Crossen and Kevin P. Curry to prove bias by then-Superior Court Judge Maria Lopez went far beyond the boundaries of permissible legal advocacy, the state's highest court found. For example, the two—with the help of a prominent lawyer who earlier accepted a three-year suspension—lured the judge's clerk out-of-state with a fictitious job offer and then grilled him about her conduct, reports the Boston Globe...continue to full post

Full post as published by Law Of Criminal Defense on February 07, 2008 (boomark / email).