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The anonymous woman was raped in Houston in 2013, according to court documents, and was cooperating with prosecutors when she suffered a breakdown while testifying in December 2015.
She has bipolar disorder and was admitted to a local hospital for mental health treatment when the judge ordered a recess for the holiday break until January 2016.
According to the documents, authorities were scheduled to be on vacation and "did not want the responsibility of having to monitor Jane Doe's well being or provide victim services to her during the holiday recess."
The complaint alleges that the district attorney's office obtained an order from the Harris County sheriff to take the woman into custody so she would not flee before completing her testimony.
The employee booking her into Harris County Jail identified her as a "defendant in a sexual assault case, rather than the victim." That impacted her treatment from jail staff, as the complaint reads:
The Harris County Jail psychiatric staff tormented Jane Doe and caused her extreme emotional distress and mental anguish by further defaming her, falsely insisting to her that she was being charged with sexual assault, and refusing to acknowledge her status as an innocent rape victim."
Doe also suffered beatings from other inmates and from a guard, who then requested assault charges to be filed against her "in an attempt to cover up the brutal abuse," according to the complaint.
[...] The complaint notes that her "rapist was also an inmate in the same facility" and treated more humanely. "Her rapist was not denied medical care, psychologically tortured, brutalized by other inmates, or beaten by jail guards," it reads.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Monday July 25 2016, @04:29PM
simply to threaten to disbar him put him in a position of a conflict of interest. Had he not resigned, then I really could have disbarred him.
There is also the court reporter's record of my request and Judge Stahnke's permission.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 25 2016, @06:35PM
I still don't get it. "To disbar [thefreedictionary.com]" is "To prohibit an attorney from the practice of law by official action or procedure", in other words "to remove its license/authorization to be a lawyer", AFAIK.
I can imagine you could have fired him or sued him, but unless you're some kind of lawyer licensing authority (the Bar) or a judge, I fail to see how you could literally disbar him.
Now, of course suing him could eventually have had the consequence of getting him disbarred by such an authority, if found guilty of some sort of misconduct, but that's a long shot.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 25 2016, @06:38PM
oh wait, did you mean debar [thefreedictionary.com]? Then your sentence would make much more sense to me.
(Score: 2) by linuxrocks123 on Monday July 25 2016, @06:58PM
He couldn't disbar him, nor did he want to. What he did was file or make public his intent to file a hostile action or complaint against the lawyer with the bar association. At that point, the lawyer had a conflict of interest with his client and was ethically obligated to resign.
You can't represent someone who is suing you or is trying to get you disbarred, even if there's no chance in hell the disbarment attempt will succeed.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Monday July 25 2016, @07:30PM
I once complained about the plaintiff's ambulance chaser when he filed a defamation action due to his own fevered imagination.
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