Re: [DL] lawyer question [STEVE LONG?]

[Allan Seyberth <darious@darious.com>]

 >    The best-known legal figure in the Old West, Judge Roy Bean, once 
fined a
 >lawyer for cursing in the courtroom when that lawyer mentioned a writ of
 >habeas corpus. ;)

Notice how Steve carefully refers to Judge Roy Bean as a "legal figure", 
not granting him any more official status in the judiciary then what is 
given by his title. . .

To provide a counter-point though.  Judge Parker was beat down by back east 
lawyers hitting him with precedence and . . . not jurisprudence - not 
etiquette - but . . . the proper manner in which a court should be run (you 
know - that thing that the Microsoft judge violated everywhere).
Anyway - using these, the tinhorns got ruling after ruling of Parker's 
overturned.  And with each breech of conduct (?) Parker's jurisdiction was 
reduced until he barely had any authority over purely Indian Territory cases.





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