From the First Page,
Judge Gleeson’s Brief Against Flynn
is a Travesty
American Thinker,
by
Andrea Widburg
Original Article
Posted By: Magnante,
6/11/2020 6:50:56 AM
You know a lawyer’s bluffing if he inundates the court with case authority for an ostensibly simple principle. The amicus brief that Judge Gleeson filed with Judge Sullivan in the Flynn case has those string cites. Gleeson’s bluffing. Worse, he’s lying.
It’s typical for dishonest attorneys to use fake citations – cases that do not stand for the principles asserted -- in their endless string sites, hoping no one will check. This what Judge Gleeson did in his brief: Every one of his 14 citations in footnote two on page 1 is a lie. That’s all you need to know about his brief.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
jinx 6/11/2020 6:58:12 AM (No. 440666)
Can Judge Gleeson be tried for lying to the court? I sure hope so.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
msjena 6/11/2020 7:38:29 AM (No. 440700)
I don't know if, in the entirety of the brief, Judge Gleeson is lying. But this author needs to get Westlaw instead of commenting on cases that she can't find. As far as I know, the general statement that courts have the power to appoint amici is correct. The issue here really isn't that Sullivan appointed a third party; it is that he didn't need one. He didn't have discretion not to grant the unopposed motion to dismiss where the defendant didn't oppose the motion.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
MickTurn 6/11/2020 7:51:54 AM (No. 440719)
Bla Bla Bla, Yada, Yada Yada...BS BS BS, Steroids Steroids Steroids, Leftist Lies........all of it!
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
mean Gene 6/11/2020 8:46:26 AM (No. 440773)
Scary that men like Gleeson and Sullivan preside over court cases at all.
They are so ignorant of the letter of the law, so slanted, so dishonest.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
bpl40 6/11/2020 9:10:43 AM (No. 440799)
Liar, Liar, pants on fire! They seem to think they are the only ones who can read.
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Lying? LYING?? Oh, my, how I love lawyers and their decorum. And let's have a drink afterwards...
Want a big lie? Try the misapplication by the author of the recent Sineneng-Smith case. Judge Sullivan is no longer just a "neutral arbiter of matters the parties present" because the trial phase is over, done, Flynn pled guilty. He did so under oath TWICE. Now, what to do with him...and his apparent perjury, if not the original crime to which he pled.
DOJ is C its A with its dismissal motion that states that the charged crime exists, but they would NOW be unable to prove beyond a reasonable doubt with the admissible evidence.
Lawyers are doing what lawyers do - putting on a show to persuade. They argue facts. They argue law. And they pound the table and shout. Lie? A lawyer? Isn't that unethical?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 6/11/2020 9:37:19 AM (No. 440841)
Did this Gleeson fellow outsource his legal brief to group of aspiring attorneys? It's amazing that a former Federal Prosecutor who had a successful career could make such fool mistakes... but liberalism and Deep State-ism does reduce mental capacity to that of a drooling pinhead.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
msjena 6/11/2020 9:48:46 AM (No. 440856)
Having skimmed the brief, I would now say it's an example of when the law is against you, argue the facts. Courts, including the DC Circuit, have held that Rule 48 is intended to protect defendants from prosecutorial misconduct, such as filing and withdrawing charges to harass someone. I would say that if Judge Gleeson is right that courts can also refuse a dismissal based on the prosecutors' allegedly improper motives, then Rule 48 itself is unconstitutional as violating separation of powers. I will admit I have lost faith in believing that courts will follow the law--see Justice John Roberts--but if they do in this case, the judge should be directed to dismiss the charges against Flynn.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
DVC 6/11/2020 10:22:32 AM (No. 440911)
This should be rapidly disposed of after the Appeals Court hearing. Judge Sullivan has no authority to do any of this. This retired judge has no authority, also. And his brief is just smoke and mirrors because he has NO case law on his side.
Deep Staters just totally desperate to stop Flynn from getting the justice he deserves.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
weejun 6/11/2020 12:12:31 PM (No. 441095)
I for one have no faith that the court system will rectify this tragedy. Judicial activism began in the sixties with the Warren Court and has steadily grown over the decades to where any less than casual observer can detect when a judge is being political instead of judicial. Unfortunately, there are now more activists in the judicial system who want to legislate/dictate from the bench than there are judges who actually try to fairly interpret the law. We are just getting started, folks: wait to the attempts to reign in Antifa are hauled before the courts.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
rsgonner 6/11/2020 4:59:17 PM (No. 441435)
Does the legal profession police itself regarding such unethical conduct. I realize that may be ludicrous on its face but thought I would ask it anyway.....
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Krause 6/11/2020 5:37:06 PM (No. 441472)
I hate dishonest people.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
lakerman1 6/11/2020 8:59:30 PM (No. 441647)
as an arbitrator, I submitted some of my awards, from time to time (with the permission of the parties) for publication in national journals.
And from time to time, one side or the other would offer a published arbitration award of mine, to bolster their arguments.(The first time that happened, I chuckled.)
On one occasion, while arbitrating a complex case in a grievance over pay calculations. opposing counsel each submitted the same one of my prior awards in a related pay case. Each attorney argued that my prior award was dispositive, and I chuckled again, because each attorney had misinterpreted my prior award.
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