Kraken lawyer Sidney Powell wins unanimous dismissal of ethics case over scattershot and incompetent disciplinary effort
Source: Law & Crime
Apr 18th, 2024, 7:29 pm
The so-called Kraken of the legal system has won a personal and professional victory in the Lone Star State. On Thursday, a Dallas-based court of appeals upheld a trial court decision that decided against any form of discipline for attorney Sidney Powell over her November 2020 lawsuits that sought to prevent the certification of election results in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, and Wisconsin.
In early 2023, the case was tossed on a defense motion to dismiss because of mislabeled evidence and several other deficiencies. A three-judge panel of Democratic Party judges said the problems with the case against Powell were even worse than that. By its own admission, the Bar misidentified or failed to include multiple exhibits it claims to have relied on in its Second Amended Response, the opinion by the Fifth District Court of Appeals reads. But the deficiencies go far beyond mislabeling exhibits.
According to the State Bar of Texas, Powell had no reason to believe the lawsuits she filed were not frivolous and she attached evidence from wholly unreliable sources to the complaints she filed. The quasi-governmental attorney ethics group also alleged that Powell relied on or made several false statements during her unsuccessful legal efforts to undo the results of the 2020 presidential election.
As it turned out, however, bar authorities could not prove their case because they relied on a poorly-constructed record. And when they later tried to amend their case, those efforts fell just as flat.
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Full headline: Kraken lawyer Sidney Powell wins unanimous dismissal of ethics case over scattershot and incompetent disciplinary effort by State Bar of Texas over 2020 election lawsuits
She still plead guilty in GA for election interference.
OrangeJoe
(337 posts)So what you are telling me is that I was right to get the heck out of Texas right after highschool. And that Texas is full of crappy lawyers.
keopeli
(3,524 posts)OrangeJoe
(337 posts)I can't imagine how messed up it is now.
bluestarone
(17,012 posts)stopdiggin
(11,337 posts)Last edited Fri Apr 19, 2024, 11:58 AM - Edit history (1)
the people who concocted this mess - should be looking at disciplinary action as well. Malpractice.
riversedge
(70,271 posts)3Hotdogs
(12,396 posts)Still, would anyone with half a brain hire her for more than a parking ticket?
bluedigger
(17,087 posts)but there you go. SMDH.