Oh yes I know that. I’m meaning a book on his own legal troubles and perhaps a slant towards witch-hunt and his agreeing to being disbarred. The irony that both def and pros wound up being disbarred but agreeing to it is astounding. Think of the odds. Then poor det Flores young son dies during the devils trial. She truly is evil.
Very late in hearing the news that JM agreed to the sanction of disbarment.
Nurmi and JM both ended up disbarred, but the similarity of their circumstances ends there.
Nurmi was a mediocre trial attorney at best, at his best. At his worst, post-trial, he violated every professional rule in the book of attorney ethics by writing that insufferable, barely coherent "book" attacking his ex-client, opposing counsel, the trial judge, every one of JM's witnesses, and even some of his own. And, faced with certain disbarment for those violations he himself put on record, he told the Bar he felt no remorse or regret. That's Nurmi.
JM was a first-rate, wildly successful trial attorney over a decades-long career. He accepted disbarment, IMO, because it became clear to him he could no longer win, and the cost (probably of every kind) of defending himself had become too prohibitive.
I read enough of the backstory to all of the complaints against him, and who brought them, to believe what happened to him was anything other than a concerted, coordinated effort to drive him out of practice. What tipped the scales and ensured JM couldn't prevail was AZ Governor Deucy personally seating Montgomery on the Supreme Court.
Everything following that manuever was about politics, including firing JM to protect his ex-boss, the spanking new Justice Montgomery.
The Kieffer-led media coverage of the sexual harassment charges against JM was exaggerated, overblown, and distorted. The reality is, JM did not have a "decades long" history of sexual harassment.
And, he never had the chance to defend himself against the sexual harassment charges levelled by the most unethical "ethics" attorney imaginable, Karen Clark, in round 4 of her unrelenting, throw more charges against him on the Bar wall to see what sticks pursuit of his scalp.
Nor did he have the chance to fight back against being fired without due process, for post-Montgomery era utterly bogus charges of retaliation.
MCAO fired him in part to force him into having to cover his own legal expenses relating to Bar complaints IMO, as well as tens of thousands dollars more to fight his dismissal from MCAO. (MCAO/the State paid out several hundreds of thousands in legal fees on his behalf over these years).
JM didn't capitulate until the Supreme Court ruled against Chief Disciplinary Judge O'Neill, reversing his decision to jettison the MCAO sexual harassment allegations from Clark's Bar complaint. That's called the handwriting on the wall. There was no point in fighting on.
Last. The butcherer doesn't deserve credit or blame for JM being disbarred, imo, no matter how much she no doubt has gloated about the outcome. Had knives not been drawn against JM by those with actual power and influence, Clark's bar complaint paid for by the butcherer would have stayed dead after it was first and rightfully dismissed, over 2 years ago.
She's not going to get a new trial, is never going to be free, and I'm guessing, a few years down the road, will be subjected to hearing about JM getting the last laugh after he chooses what he wants to do next.
