Thank you (and @Dewey_Finn) for the clarification; the push notification on my phone didn’t make that clear.
The fact the January 6th Committee is now interested in these phone records is delicious. Imagine if this lawyer’s screwup is what puts a bunch of the instigators behind bars.
Or… this lawyer’s heroic and patriotic action…
That was my first thought. Was it an accident?
It sure as heck wasn’t an accident that they did not respond with a corrected link and/or request to return the data within 10 days.
Compete and utter incompetence, or deliberate? WE report, YOU decide!
He was probably such a loathsome toad that he made his own lawyer ill.
To paraphrase Groucho Marx, “I refuse to hire a lawyer who would have me as a client.”
Of course, I figure that isn’t legitimate, which was somewhat the humor of the show. Surely “put a dollar in my pocket” doesn’t actually mean anything; it’s a total schlock lawyer move and showed what kind of attorney he was.
But at least Saul made the effort!
I’m hoping the amount ordered is some Calvin-esque number.
Maybe Alex Jones and Amber Heard could tour as The Biggest Losers.
To be totally fair to Jones’s lawyer, he is not the original lawyer Jones had and he wasn’t around for the discovery phase. He is the ELEVENTH lawyer and I think he didn’t come on board until after the default judgement was made. He’s stuck with 10 lawyers’ worth of bad decisions plus Jones.
That was actually surprisingly entertaining to watch.
Couple of my favorite bits paraphrased
Regarding Jone’s lawyers request for time to go through the 300GB of data and specifically indicate what was privileged to stop it being disclosed/used further going forward (time=17:56)
Lawyer: Can I have 10 days to go back and do this?
Judge: Well we’ve still got more trial to go through so see what you can get done by the end of the day.
Lawyer: That’s an awful lot to get done in one day
Judge: Well if you had disclosed them a year ago like you were supposed to you would have had plenty of time.
Regarding disclosure to other government officials (19:04)
Jones’ Lawyer: Can we at least have a hold on disclosure of these documents until I can designate which ones are confidential?
Judge to Sandyhook Lawyer: Who are you turning these documents over to?
Sandyhook lawyer: The January 6th committee.
Judge to Jone’s lawyer: I don’t know if you could stop that anyway
Jone’s lawyer: Well if they subpoenaed them we certainly would hand them over.
Judge: Well they’re going to now. They know they exist. They know they have them. I think they are going to get them either way.
No, not if it’s newsworthy. News coverage is fair use. Jones would be fighting an uphill battle if all he is claiming rights in are short messages.
I can’t tell anymore if he’s making the best of a bad situation or slyly burning his client to the ground. Take this quote:
Last week, Mr. Jones’s lawyers argued that the national discourse had become so polluted by disinformation that it was difficult to discern truth from fiction.
“He had seen what he perceived as so many lies and so many cover-ups and so much hand-washing of the facts that he had become biased,” said F. Andino Reynal, his lawyer. “He was looking at the world through dirty glasses. And if you look at the world through dirty glasses, everything you see is dirty.”
That’s right up there with “please don’t send my client to jail for murdering his parents; he’s already suffered so much being an orphan.”
Growing up, one of the big divides between Democrats and Republicans was the matter of personal responsibility. You would watch almost any movie or TV show by a lefty, with a drug dealer, criminal, or bad guy and invariably the story would make sure that you knew that he’d been abused as a child, corrupted by others - the system, society, other kids, etc. - and should be viewed as an innocent, helpless against the forces that mislead him.
On the Republican side, the view was simple: If you don’t want to go to jail, don’t commit crimes. You’re responsible for your choices and you will pay for them.
Maybe this is the start of this element of philosophy moving from the right to the left.
I must be too young to remember the golden age of Republican personal responsibility.
Must have been before Oliver North
Or Tricky Dick Nixon
I’d be on board with Eisenhower (I like Ike!) but that was pre-Civil Rights Act and Southern Strategy, i.e. modern Republican strategery.
I didn’t know the texts used at trial were texts between Jones and his lawyers. So yea, that’s a colossal fuckup and easily correctable.
The texts are apparently every text Jones had sent from his phone over the last two years… it might include some to his lawyers or not, I’m not sure
WHEN NEWS BROKE that Alex Jones’ attorney had royally, cartoonishly, breathtakingly crapped the bed, sending a copy of Jones’ phone and two years of text messages to the Sandy Hook families who are suing him,
From Alex Jones’ Accidental Text Dump Is Hilarious—and Alarming | WIRED
Jeez -
I get one bad lawyer, shame on that lawyer
I get two bad lawyers, shame on my luck
I get three bad lawyers, shame on the system
I get four bad lawyers, shame on the law
…
I get eleven bad lawy… wait a second here, maybe it’s me?
