Connecticut Won't Punish Lawyer Over False ID In Plofsky Matter

[Not so Easily Distracted]

Interested wrote:

<quoted text> Whether or not the man was worthy of his position does not entitle an attorney to break the law, it is against the oath they took as a lawyer.

Really? What is the oath, exactly? Everyone keeps talking about this oath. Does the oath carry over to everything the lawyer does? Or is it only the practice of law? If he tells his wife he had to work late but he was really playing golf, does he get disbarred? What if the lawyer calls his job and says "this is my mother...Billy can't go to the firm today..he's sick." Does he get disbarred for that?

Just wondering.

[zipi]

Not so Easily Distracted wrote:

<quoted text> Really? What is the oath, exactly? Everyone keeps talking about this oath. Does the oath carry over to everything the lawyer does? Or is it only the practice of law? If he tells his wife he had to work late but he was really playing golf, does he get disbarred? What if the lawyer calls his job and says "this is my mother...Billy can't go to the firm today..he's sick." Does he get disbarred for that?
Just wondering.

nope, isaiah, just focus on the fraud she committed. i don't care if she lies to her hubby or vice versa. but on my nickel, don't commit fraud.

[Mac]

RU kidding me wrote:

Government of the lawyers for the lawyers by the lawyers.

Oh, if it were only true. From your lips to God's ear.

[Jim]

joan T wrote:

We need a constitutional convention. This state is called the constitution state HAH! It's the political state and the slogan is "SQUEEZE THEM UNTIL OUR POCKETS ARE FULL!" Rowland wrote it and the other pols are following his lead.Pick up the paper and every day more political corruption is exposed--in washington, connecticut etc, and the list goes on and on and on, until it fades in to the sunset with another political corruption scandal taking its place. The Duggan affair is a disgrace to the state of conn. ethics committee and a stain on every honest lawyer in the ABA. Shame on Connecticut for not giving her the punishment she justly deserves- loss of her state job and an appearance before the state bar for her lack of professional ethics. How much is the lawsuit brought by Mr Plotsky going to cost the state in the long run. Good bye to the surplus that was recently announced.

Very well said!! The Duggan case shines a BRIGHT lite on Moody-Rell and their unethical behavior. Unfortunately, most Ct. people are unaware of that and the REALLY big Ct. issue this Fall which is a YES vote for direct initiative power for you and me and everyone who lives in Corrupticut.

[Minnie Hawkins]

"and is now an attorney at the state's child-
protection agency"

This is what scares me most now. After all of her outrageous shenanigans, how can she be looking out for the state's children? This is scandalous at best. I give up on this administration. I can no longer support those corrupt politicians in power in CT.

[Phillip H Inkel]

interested in CT DCF fraud that harms children and families? http://www.walrradio.com/alr_staticpages/inke...

[Rells Son]

Jodi Rell's criminal son:
http://www.corporatecrimereporter.com/curryin...

CCR: Has the Lt. Governor, Jodi Rell, been implicated?

CURRY: When her son was found by state environmental officers to be running a stolen property ring out of her basement for Skidoos, the environmental officers who made
the arrests had their careers threatened.

They suffered until it hit the press and then the administration backed off. She denied any involvement in the retaliation. Again, Connecticut's extraordinary unwillingness to investigate the apparent corruption of its own elected officials saved her from further public embarrassment.

In any event, she has been a happy, willing partner and an insider in the Rowland administration for nine years.

[Georgie B]

This person is not out of the woods yet. DAS may be blind to the fact that lying is not a fireable offense, but she's getting ready to face charges with the licensing board on this.

[Phillip H Inkel]

http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp...

[wojar]

Oh! So she didn't commit fraud??? So she gets off easy because she's a state employee and a bruhaha is not nice?
And who foots the bill?

[wojar]

Minnie Hawkins wrote:

"and is now an attorney at the state's child-
protection agency"
This is what scares me most now. After all of her outrageous shenanigans, how can she be looking out for the state's children? This is scandalous at best. I give up on this administration. I can no longer support those corrupt politicians in power in CT.

She has every reqyured qualification: Good sucking up ability!

[wojar]

Not so Easily Distracted wrote:

<quoted text> Really? What is the oath, exactly? Everyone keeps talking about this oath. Does the oath carry over to everything the lawyer does? Or is it only the practice of law? If he tells his wife he had to work late but he was really playing golf, does he get disbarred? What if the lawyer calls his job and says "this is my mother...Billy can't go to the firm today..he's sick." Does he get disbarred for that?
Just wondering.

In a word: NO. To be disbarred, there are certain specific requirements set out by the highest court in the state. Playing hookie or lying to wifey are not on the list.

Conflict of interest or betraying client's confidence are on the list, inter alia.

[Mierzwa]

Phillip H Inkel wrote:

http://www.law.com/jsp/article .jsp?id=1103549725052

Mary Ann Mierzwa, fired from her job as a court services officer in juvenile court in Hartford, Conn., is suing the Judicial Branch in federal court under state whistleblower, workplace free speech and federal civil rights laws.

Last April, state Judicial Branch attorney Mary Ann Mierzwa claims she witnessed what seemed to be a breathtakingly audacious breach of lawyer ethics: an assistant attorney general representing the Department of Children and Families altered a judge's order apparently to get the result the AAG was advocating.

When the judge in the case, William Wollenberg, appeared unwilling to vigorously pursue the matter, Mierzwa took matters into her own hands and consulted a West Hartford attorney about her legal rights and ethical duties.

As evidence, she provided the lawyer, Leon Rosenblatt, with a redacted copy of the allegedly altered order -- and was subsequently suspended, then fired for going outside the Judicial Branch "chain of command" and showing Rosenblatt the form without a court order authorizing her to do so. Mierzwa's now suing the Judicial Branch in federal court under state whistleblower, workplace free speech and federal civil rights laws.

THIRD PARTY DISCLOSURE?

As an attorney employed by the Judicial Branch as a court services officer at the Broad Street juvenile matters court in Hartford Mierzwa was negotiating on the day in question with five other lawyers to reach an accord on the specific conditions for a juvenile's release from DCF custody.

According to Mierzwa's Dec. 6 complaint, the unnamed AAG left to make copies of Wollenberg's checklist order. The copies that were later distributed to the lawyers "had been altered in several ways," she alleges.

"Two portions of the judge's ruling," the complaint states, "had been crossed out, and a new requirement had been imposed on the mother of the juvenile [to] make it appear the judge had ordered the 'Specific Steps' which the AAG had advocated."

Three days later, Wollenberg had Mierzwa redraft the original version of his orders, despite further unsuccessful argument from the AAG to change them, Mierzwa claims.

[oh I see]

wojar wrote:

<quoted text>
In a word: NO. To be disbarred, there are certain specific requirements set out by the highest court in the state. Playing hookie or lying to wifey are not on the list.
Conflict of interest or betraying client's confidence are on the list, inter alia.

Can you post a copy of the list?

[Heywood Szablomieski]

I have to say I am disappointed with the, for lack of a better term, "sophomoric" humor displayed in these posts.

[Georgie B]

Care to cite some examples?

Heywood Szablomieski wrote:

I have to say I am disappointed with the, for lack of a better term, "sophomoric" humor displayed in these posts.

[wojar]

oh I see wrote:

<quoted text>Can you post a copy of the list?

Check out the Connecticut Rules of Professional Conduct

http://www.law.cornell.edu/ethics/ct/code/CT_...

[Phillip H Inkel]

Bob wrote:

Just one more reason for Governor Rell not to be reelected to someone new can clean house. When the state allows a layer working for the executive branch to commit profession misconduct and there are no repercussions, it is disgrace to the people of Connecticut and a black mark against the state.
Makes you wonder what other profession misconducts are being swept under the rug..

http://phillip-inkel.blogspot. com/ Oh there are plenty of Connecticut professional misconduct cases here in Connecticut concealed and protected by Governor Rell and Company. By the way its not The State of Connecticut that allows, condones, and authorizes legal and judicial fraud it is Connecticut's current governing authorities, like Governor Rell, that have abused and continue to abuse their authorities and public trust to turn Connecticut's governmental and judicial services into their own personal racketeering enterprises and protection rackets. Can we all say conspiracy to engage in racketeering enterprises, obstruct justice, and violate the civil and constitutional rights of citizens and external and internal whistle-blowers. Shame on Governor Rell and company.

[Phil McCracken]

Georgie B wrote:

Care to cite some examples?<quoted text>

Yeah, what do you mean?

[Georgie B]

Phil McCracken wrote:

<quoted text>Yeah, what do you mean?

If you have to ask, then you didn't quite get an education now, did you?