A handwritten note from December appears to tie pro-Trump lawyer and conspiracy theorist Sidney Powell to one of the companies contracted to carry out the “audit” of Maricopa County, Arizona’s 2020 election results.
Release the Kraken? More like Release the Karen, that’s about the level of insanity and privilege that Powell and her ilk have used to try to overturn the election. It would have been completely in character for her to demand to see the manager of the US because she wanted the election fixed.
I have never heard of a “crazy attorney defense” before.
I mean this is kind of baffling in that these statement’s by Powell’s attorneys sound more like admissions than a defense:
In a motion to dismiss the suit in March, Powell’s attorneys described her position that “reasonable people would not accept such statements as fact but view them only as claims that await testing by the courts through the adversary process.”
“Without a doubt Sidney Powell believes the statements to be true—that is why she instituted litigation in four separate jurisdictions to establish their truth,” they wrote, adding: “Given the full context of a lawyer presenting her clients’ claims and evidence, the statements were clearly intending to tell the audience what the litigation sought to prove.”
Well truth is an absolute defense in defamation cases, “believing” something to be true is not. I am also unaware that you can defame a person or business prior to adjudication. That is it is not a defense to defamation that you were only doing it to publicly, as in outside the courtroom, for reasons that have nothing to do with court proceedings like rallying the public to your cause.
Saying someone is just acting crazy to garner attention as a defense to a defamation law suite really strikes me as more of an admission than a defense.
“Without a doubt she believes it to be true…” Uh huh. What else has she been caught “believing to be true” over the years? Seems to me that too many of these erroneous “beliefs” clogging up state and federal courts might warrant a serious sanction against a lawyer… if they weren’t protected by powerful people?
Info in LA Times article today about Cyber Ninjas and Jovan Pulitzer.
Doug Logan describes his firm as a “Christian Company.” CN received $98,000 in Covid 19 relief, he claims he has five employees.
He claimed that his firm “worked with some of the largest names in the financial services space.” He listed Citibank and JP Morgan Chase as former clients in an expert witness case. Both said that they have no record of hiring CN
Jovan Pulitzer - In 2000, he developed a bar code scanner called Cuecat that purported to link ads to the internet. It was later named one of the 50 worst inventions of all time by Time magazine.
Where do they find these people? Evidently in an alternate universe.
In a motion to dismiss the suit in March, Powell’s attorneys described her position that “reasonable people would not accept such statements as fact but view them only as claims that await testing by the courts through the adversary process.”
You need a lawyer these days just to read the news.