If someone cuts you off, are you going to slow down enough so they can exit their car and jump into yours? I'm just a novice, but sounds kind of fishy, IMHO.
Who dares say that disbarred lawyers don't still hang in the same 'hood??
No. The guy shot his wife in the brain and shot himself in the belly. Case closed as far as I’m concerned.
Two disbarred lawyers living in the same block.
The question has to be asked, so I might as well do it: Where was Bill that night?
Leni
Hmm, the old “stranger killed-my-wife-but-only-wounded-me-on-the-out-of-the-way-route-home” story.
I tell ya, people really don’t understand how powerful a vehicle can be. Cut me off, block my exit, I’m ramming. back and forth...the vehicle will live long enough to get me away even if the engine boils cherry red with no cooling.
If you’re just a novice - rack up a few more hours of C.S.I. Miami and come back as an expert.
I remember this case. The early reaction was, “Gee, yet another neighbor of bill clinton bites the dust. What a coincidence!” I think it was about the time Buddy got run over, too.
But as the details came out, the other scenario became more likely, that this guy wounded himself after killing his wife, to deflect blame and collect the insurance.
At least that's the way it used to be. I assume it still is. I'm not a lawyer (and, yes, I am bragging).
A former criminal defense lawyer, Perez-Olivo was disbarred three months ago after a judicial panel ruled that he had “repeatedly refused to return unearned funds or retainers to clients.”
Court records say Perez-Olivo bilked clients out of tens of thousands of dollars.
The lawyer, who had practiced law since 1980, had previously been accused of incompetence for forgetting a crucial part of his closing argument in defense of Elio Cruz, a waiter convicted of second-degree murder for fatally shooting his wife’s lover last year in a Manhattan subway station.
“There is a lot of other things that, honestly, I thought of that can’t think of right now,” Perez-Olivo told the jury before his client was convicted and sentenced to 18 years to life in prison.
A juror was dismissed after she wrote the judge a letter complaining about Perez-Olivo’s “weak, shoddy” performance.
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Carlos Perez-Olivo was a lawyer with an intimate appreciation for the dark side of the law.
He specialized in criminal defense, standing up for more than 30 clients charged with murder. He represented the desperate and the violent: not only killers, but also drug dealers, fake doctors and illegal immigrants with minimal resources to pay for their defense.
Yet his understanding of the illicit was more than secondhand. In August, he was disbarred for misappropriating money from a client’s bail and other improprieties. In a damning passage from his disbarment order, a New York state court ruled his conduct had “adversely reflected on his fitness as a lawyer.”
The details might have been extracted from the very kind of murder cases that Mr. Perez-Olivo handled.
Three months ago, the Appellate Division of the State Supreme Court took away Mr. Perez-Olivo’s license. The decision was based on complaints from four clients who accused him of misconduct that included misappropriating bail money, failing to file appeals and charging excessive fees.
The decision noted that Mr. Perez-Olivo was admonished in 1998 for similar misconduct, and that in November 2000 he forfeited his license to practice law in Puerto Rico, at a time “when he was facing disciplinary charges based upon allegations similar to those raised here.”
If I remember right, the cops/courts were closing in on him, so he committed suicide by killing himself (jumped off a bridge, I think).
The alibi is surely the bad karma that has moved in. Clinton Inc.