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Lawyer Drops Dead While Arguing Case
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| 04/21/06 10:25 EDT
| The News & Observer staff reporter
Posted on 04/21/2006 10:09:39 AM PDT by null and void
The News & Observer
Tom Farris had previous heart problems, according to a friend.
RALEIGH, N.C. (April 21) - A defense lawyer was arguing a drunken driving case when he fell on the courtroom floor and died of an apparent heart attack, officials and friends said.
Bailiffs and a police officer tried to administer CPR immediately after 57-year-old Tom Farris collapsed Thursday in the Wake County courthouse. Emergency personnel arrived less than six minutes later.
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TOPICS: US: North Carolina
KEYWORDS: lawyers; mistrial
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To: null and void
You can just bet that I will be poking at ya! BTW, if I go before you please feel free to poke away! Not like I'm gonna care a whole lot! Sad for his family though.
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posted on
04/21/2006 11:08:02 AM PDT
by
derllak
To: CrawDaddyCA
If the thought of a lawyer dropping dead makes you smile, you are a sad, pathetic person.
42
posted on
04/21/2006 11:10:12 AM PDT
by
Capt. Jake
(Tar Heels against Edwards)
To: ErnBatavia
Hard to say. There's lots of competition for the lowest of the low.
My current inner circle of Hell is reserved for slip-and-fall/dog-bite attorneys.
I may be biased because a dog-bite (the stupid drugged up and drunk woman tried to grab a day-old puppy from mommy dog) on my property cost $75,000.
It's not my dog. I wasn't even there when it happened. I got to pay anyway.
43
posted on
04/21/2006 11:10:32 AM PDT
by
null and void
(America: It's too late to work within the system, but it's too early to start shooting the bastards.)
To: derllak
Goody! I'll look forward to it. Have I given you enough material, yet?
44
posted on
04/21/2006 11:11:51 AM PDT
by
null and void
(America: It's too late to work within the system, but it's too early to start shooting the bastards.)
To: null and void
Make sure its a good stunt....ck gas tank with match ect.
45
posted on
04/21/2006 11:13:15 AM PDT
by
359Henrie
(NASA needs one more moon rock, its in Mecca.)
To: 359Henrie
My Bonnie looked into the gas tank
It's contents more clearly to see,
She lit a match to assist her,
Oh bring back my Bonnie to meeeee
46
posted on
04/21/2006 11:14:59 AM PDT
by
null and void
(America: It's too late to work within the system, but it's too early to start shooting the bastards.)
To: null and void
Lol! Pretty close, Nutty D! I'd rather leave 'em laughing than crying, that's my motto! :P
47
posted on
04/21/2006 11:15:21 AM PDT
by
derllak
To: Jeff Chandler
Before or after they are found guilty? Or is the accusation enough for you?
48
posted on
04/21/2006 11:17:25 AM PDT
by
Badray
To: ridesthemiles
Have you ever heard of the concept of innocence?
Is everyone guilty just because they are arrested?
I have no use for murderers or rapists or pedophiles, but I still prefer evidence presented at trial before conviction and sentencing.
49
posted on
04/21/2006 11:22:39 AM PDT
by
Badray
To: null and void
Or something like that guy at Concord Naval Weapons Station (20 yrs?), stop a train by sittin on the track.
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posted on
04/21/2006 11:24:33 AM PDT
by
359Henrie
(NASA needs one more moon rock, its in Mecca.)
To: null and void
How many of your patients were talking on their cellphones when the accident occured?
51
posted on
04/21/2006 11:26:29 AM PDT
by
B4Ranch
(Immigration Control and Border Security -The jobs George W. Bush doesn't want to do.)
To: ridesthemiles
BTW, when you get arrested for some crime against society that many find reprehensible -- especially if you are innocent -- I hope that no attorney stoops to that level to defend someone like you.
No, I'm not an attorney and I don't have much respect for ambulance chasers, but we have a right to make our case and someone has to do it for us. That's our system and those people are called lawyers. And another reminder, the guy sitting at the other table trying to put the defendant in jail is a lawyer too.
I can't believe that I am defending lawyers, but comments like yours cannot be allowed to stand without being challenged.
And no, I've never been arrested for DUI and I rarely drink anymore.
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posted on
04/21/2006 11:28:55 AM PDT
by
Badray
To: null and void
And everyone adjourned to the bar to hoist a few in honor of Ol' Tom.
53
posted on
04/21/2006 11:30:33 AM PDT
by
metesky
("Brethren, leave us go amongst them." Rev. Capt. Samuel Johnston Clayton - Ward Bond- The Searchers)
To: 359Henrie
Brian Wilson. He was astonished that a fully loaded freight train couldn't stop on a dime.
The train crew ended up suing him for mental distress, IIRC...
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posted on
04/21/2006 11:32:31 AM PDT
by
null and void
(America: It's too late to work within the system, but it's too early to start shooting the bastards.)
To: Jeff Chandler
I also despise drunk drivers.
Nobody who is sane doesn't depise drunk drivers. That's different from saying that someone accused of the crime isn't entitled to a defense. If it wasn't for lawyers willing to defend clients accused of abhorent cases, the system would break down completely. And, no, I'm not a lawyer...
To: Badray
Before or after they are found guilty? Or is the accusation enough for you?What accusation?
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posted on
04/21/2006 11:34:03 AM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(Ignore the drive-by media. Build the fence. Sí, Se Puede!)
To: B4Ranch
None. Cell phones didn't exist back then. I only stopped to render aid if the CHP hadn't arrived on scene yet. They've gotten faster over the years...
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posted on
04/21/2006 11:34:30 AM PDT
by
null and void
(America: It's too late to work within the system, but it's too early to start shooting the bastards.)
To: null and void
A defense lawyer was arguing a drunken driving case when he fell on the courtroom floor and died of an apparent heart attack, Well that's a good start.
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posted on
04/21/2006 11:35:21 AM PDT
by
Centurion2000
(Every man must be tempted, sometimes,to hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.)
To: null and void
I was at M.I. at the time, I still smile at that one, but my check out stunt will be bigger.
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posted on
04/21/2006 11:35:36 AM PDT
by
359Henrie
(NASA needs one more moon rock, its in Mecca.)
To: ridesthemiles
I have a hard time feeling sorry for a lawyer who takes cases defending drunk drivers.
What do you think will happen to a person who is accused of a serious crime, but can't find a lawyer to defend him in court? Our legal system would break down - it's not set up for a non-adversarial court proceding. It's even more likely that an accused drunk driver would have to set free if there wasn't a lawyer around that would take his case - the accused is entitled to a jury trial with adequate legal representation and if nobody is willing to provide him that adequate legal representation, he cannot be convicted.
And I'm sure you meant to say, "who takes cases defending accused drunk drivers, right?
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