Posted on 11/22/2005 2:45:29 PM PST by steve-b
Controversial attorney thrown off of GTA lawsuit
November 21, 2005 - Controversial Miami-based attorney Jack Thompson has been removed from a lawsuit filed by the families of two slain police officers and a police dispatcher against Sony, Rockstar Games, and game retailers. Furthermore, the judge in the case revoked Thompson's license to practice law in the state of Alabama citing Thompson's behavior as the cause of the sanction.
In our previous coverage of the trial, we reported that Thompson had voluntarily withdrawn from the case because he felt that the "other side [meaning the trial defendents] wants to make me the issue." However, Judge Moore, the case's presiding jurist, issued a stinging 18-page report in which the judge rejected Thompson's claim of voluntary removal and stated that Thompson was effectively thrown off the case for actions "before this Court [that] suggest that he is unable to conduct himself in a manner befitting practice in this state." Furthermore, Moore has referred Thompson's conduct to Disciplinary Commission of the Alabama Bar for "appropriate action." Such actions could potentially include complete permanent disbarrment from the practice of law in the state of Alabama....
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Heartbreaking.
LOL.....just when we think things couldn't get any funnier........LOL.
I wonder if he can still practice in Florida.
citing Thompson's behavior as the cause of the sanction.
Bwhahahahahahah!
We remember Thompson and his behavior!!!
OMG, this story is out of my loop; is he really that disliked by the gamers?
Hush now, he'll sue you.
He used to post here, years ago.
Lunatic!!!
Oh, I remember; I loved all those vanities he posted about "not posting here anymore."
I never heard of him, what was his FR nic?
He's even been getting his feathers ruffled by webcomics too.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1504694/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1506886/posts
"This company has done this because I dared to go on CBS's 60 Minutes in March and again in July to explain a wrongful death lawsuit I have brought on behalf of two police officers and a police dispatcher in Fayette, Alabama, who were shot in the head and killed by Devin Moore who obsessively trained on Grand Theft Auto: Vice City to kill them. "
Is this the very case he just got thrown off of? *snicker*
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