Should be a ton more IMO.
BOISE — A judge has issued an order imposing sanctions on a Mountain Home attorney who filed an error-filled motion asking to intervene in the murder case of Chad Daybell. Terry Ratliff filed the motion on Friday, March 29 at 11:42 p.m., just two days before jury selection was set to begin in...
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Ratliff explained he used a template when he filed the motion and blamed the many mistakes on the fact he was nervous.
“This is a template form and I simply forgot to take it off,” Ratliff said. “In the body of the motion, I say I am filing it without permission of the defendant or his counsel.”
Boyce asked who he was representing. Ratliff responded he should have signed the motion as “citizen.”
“You’ve got your name, your Idaho state bar number, your Ratliff Law Office and attorney for defendant. You’re telling me you mistakingly filed something as a citizen and not an attorney?” Boyce asked. “Why were you doing that on a Friday night at almost midnight?”
Ratliff responded that he needed to do something to slow the case down to which Boyce replied, “This trial is scheduled for how many years and you wanted to slow it down the day before it started?”
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