Happy ONE YEAR anniversary of the Blacks Beach Tapes! And it was on this day, exactly one year ago (April 28, 2007), that we learned the means by which Harlow paid his lawyer BEFORE he was arrested. From
Part 24:
JOSEPH KEREKES: Very respectful, I mean very, I mean Barry never had to shut anybody up, and the interview went on for almost three hours, Harlow did really good, made it very entertaining, ya know, and Barry never shut him up. You know Barry's a client right?
GRANT ROY: No.
JOSEPH KEREKES: Yea, he's a five hundred dollar an hour lawyer but he's been our, a client, he hasn't used us in the past year, but, he's been a client for six years.
GRANT ROY: Really?
HARLOW CUADRA: Of mine... and they asked so, how did you find Barry, I said umm, well ya know we shopped around for awhile for a good lawyer and... you could tell Barry was fucking sweating bullets, I was like man, I can't do that to you dude. I won't do that to him.
JOSEPH KEREKES: Ha, ha, ha, ha...
HARLOW CUADRA: That's probably why he ... wanted to defend us, like to the peak ya know?
Yep. Yep yep yep yep yep...
Yeah...that's one way to want to get a lawyer to defend you "to the peak." And beyond that...I don't really have a whole lot of musing on this section of the tapes. This is one of those parts that pretty much muses itself, I think! :-)
I suppose I can add a link to a page with a video of Barry, though.
7 comments:
is Barry on the witness list?
He's #226 on the old list. Not sure about the revised and abridged list.
Jim--
Sure puts a whole new meaning to the Latin phrase quid pro quo.
Also echoes pop culture, as in the advertising for Hair Club as seen on television: And Barry Taylor is a client too.
Harlow cetainly isn't squeamish. Hopping from Nep to Barry. What a glamorous life.
There has to be something in the canons of the legal profession about representing a client with whom you have previously conspired to break the law. I assume prostitution is still illegal in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
Once again the Chinchilla strips away the lettuce leaf that would give that respectable covering to the truck garden of facts that makes up this murder trial to be.
"There has to be something in the canons of the legal profession about representing a client with whom you have previously conspired to break the law. I assume prostitution is still illegal in the Commonwealth of Virginia."
Undoubtably.
And I think just having sex with a client (be it legal or no) is ethically frowned on as well.
Barry Taylor withdrew as their lawyer shortly after their arrest; as I recall, it was widely blogged by certain bloggers back then that he was "forced" to withdraw by eeeeeeeevil Virginia RICO prosecutors.
Well...I think that has now been exposed as the "hogwash" that it is. Barry quit for other reasons obviously, with this ethically untenable situation no doubt being one of them.
Geoff--
The sanction you are thinking of is common throughout the contiguous 48 states, Alaska, Hawaii, the territory of Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands, Guam and American Somoa.
Generally, that sanction is an attorney shall not engage in a personal and/or sexual relationsip with his or her client as doing so is considered an unethical breach of professional behavior and violating the necessary objectivity that an attorney must demonstrate in representing a client to best of his/her knowledge, skill, and ability.
Mr. Barry Taylor, Esquire will have an appointment with the Virginia State Bar Association to show cause why he should not be sanctioned sooner or later.
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