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To: SecularBull who wrote (94818)11/29/2000 8:14:08 PM
From: Broken_Clock  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 769667
 
Instructions from the Head Goron to David Boies:
Open mouth, insert foot.

lawdog, did you and Boies attend the same law school.

Tallahassee Judge Rebukes Gore
Attorney Boies

Jack Thompson
Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2000

Fireworks went off late Wednesday
afternoon in the Tallahassee, Fla.,
courtroom of Circuit Judge N. Sanders
Sauls at the expense of Gore lead
attorney David Boies.

Boies has been in front of Sauls this
week, parrying with the Bush campaign's
attorneys over a range of issues,
including whether the judge should order
yet another hand recount of thousands of
contested ballots from Palm Beach and
Miami-Dade counties.

Tuesday, Sauls refused to order the
recount at this time, instead setting a
hearing later in the week on the issue.
But the ballots are now on a truck
headed for Tallahassee just in case.

Late this afternoon, Boies put in front
of Sauls an order prepared by Boies
saying that the judge had ordered the
hand recount not to occur. Once the
order was signed, Boies could then take
an appeal of this issue to the
Gore-friendly Florida Supreme Court. The
law is that you can't take an appeal
unless and until there is an order
entered. No order, no appeal.

Sauls angrily told Boies, who persisted
in asking for the order, that he wasn't
signing any order until he decided what
to do on the recount issue after the
hearing, not before.


The judge has received a fax directly
into his chambers alerting him that
Boies is ethically challenged, as shown
by his submission of a false affidavit
to the Florida Supreme Court, which
allowed Boies to mischaracterize a key
Illinois Supreme Court case.

The bottom line is that this evening
Boies has no order to appeal, thanks to
Sauls.

Judge Sauls knows that desperate lawyers
do desperate things, and he seems to
know that there is a desperate lawyer in
his courtroom.