Comments on: SC Supreme Court Report Card Won’t Be Made Public

By: Not in your lifetime

Not in your lifetime — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 03:01:39 +0000

The atty disciplinary system and process in SC is pathetic. An atty has no constitutional rights and is presumed guilty. Richardson was a joke and the woman who took his place is no better. Also the Charleston College of Law is a fourth rate school where any one can go if they pay enough money or know one of the founders.

By: none ya business

none ya business — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 21:16:13 +0000

Justice Toal & all the rest of them are just a bunch of crooked un accountable crooks that protect big business and the christian judeao morons….not to mention mot of the SC attys are in on this as well. It is a rare person in SC who steps up to the plate..What a monron place to live in..

By: Bar Association Report In Chief Justice’s Hands | FITSNews For Now

Bar Association Report In Chief Justice’s Hands | FITSNews For Now — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:39:53 +0000

[...] and her clerk, Dan Shearouse, received the draft earlier this month, yet as we reported back in March they will not be releasing its findings to the public. Toal and her chief disciplinary counsel, [...]

By: Pete

Pete — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 02:04:38 +0000

Mincing Words. I didn’t believe it either. I called the Sumter County Sheriff’s Department and got some really up tight angry at the world major who finally admitted it. Henry is trying little cases in magistrate’s court for the Sheriff’s department. Call ‘em tomorrow yo’self.

By: Mincing Words

Mincing Words — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 00:41:57 +0000

very interesting news, Todd! FITSNEWS, what do you know about ‘HRH Richardson’s employment status?

By: Todd

Todd — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 15:13:46 +0000

Last Fall, after Fitsnews broke a story – which has never been denied – that the Feds were looking into Prince Henry Richardson’s ODC practices and implementation of the rules, Henry was quietly relieved of his duties at the ODC.. Like, 5 days later. He is now special legal counsel to the Sumter County Sheriff’s Department. Is a TERI employee allowed to make such a move? I hope Reggie Lloyd took the Queen Jean-Prince Henry file with him to SLED.

By: Not Sayin', Just Sayin'

Not Sayin', Just Sayin' — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 13:17:45 +0000

Henry undoubtedly let ODC run amuck, must notably when he found that King Jean’s drunken bumper-car ride through Shandon happened without her breaking the law. But his work at ODC is certainly not done: heâ€™s still there as “senior counsel.â€ See http://www.sccourts.org/whatsnew/displaywhatsnew.cfm?indexID=385

No, Coggiola is not a crook by anyone’s estimation, but her brainpower undoubtedly leaves something to be desired. As the Judicial Merit Selection Commission noted when it decided not to nominate her for the Court of Appeals seat she naively sought, â€œher performance on the Commission’s practice and procedure questions fell below the level of expectation generally met by an applicant.â€ See http://www.scsenate.org/sess117_2007-2008/hj07/01-11-07.doc

So what does Toal do after Coggiolaâ€™s public embarrassment? It puts Coggiola in charge of â€œgradingâ€ other lawyersâ€™ conduct. Nice. In exchange for helping a fellow feminist save face and giving her a $30K raise to boot, the least it could expect was a lapdog â€¦ and a lapdog she got. While Henry and Jean run the show (into the ground), Coggiola has provided a fresh (or rather â€œunfamiliarâ€) face for ODC while making a joke out of the ABA investigations by severely limiting the input available to the ABA. Meanwhile, Toal continues to further erode public confidence in its profession and it by making a mockery of the bar exam and doing the old hit â€˜n run on cars at the airport. Like a certain former first lady who is too obtuse to know when sheâ€™s overstayed her welcome, Toal is going to defiantly languish in public disdain and ridicule until her laudable, groundbreaking achievement of being the stateâ€™s first female chief justice is forever overshadowed by her unspeakable conduct in office.

By: Mincing Words

Mincing Words — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 20:37:24 +0000

Wow, did I miss something? Has the attorney disciplinary system gotten more out of control under Coggiola? You gotta be kidding me. Talk about a lapdog- that would be Henry Richardson. How ’bout trash him too, since Coggiola has only been in that position what, two years, as opposed to the reign of terror under Richardson that lasted for decades (at least it seemed like decades)

For the record- I don’t know either Coggiola or Richardson on a personal level, just professionally. So I don’t have an undisclosed bias.

By: Not Sayin', Just Sayin'

Not Sayin', Just Sayin' — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 19:52:29 +0000

Wow, well, it’s impossible to argue with hyperbole like that. But regardless of whether Will’s source about Beatty Ashmore’s misconduct has any credibility, I don’t see any of our learned posters arguing that the ABA is right to keep mum about its assessment of our attorney discipline “process.”

As for King Jean, it is a delusional, cranky drunk who acts as if it believes it is above the very law it is charged with upholding. It has made our judicial department and bar exam laughingstock, and even its most ardent supporters can’t honestly dispute those facts with any credibility. If it does not provide full disclosure of the ABA’s assessment of our attorney discipline “process,” one can fairly assume such stonewalling is merely an effort to avoid further embarrassment for Toal and Toal’s half-witted minion, Disciplinary Counsel Lee Coggiola.

Why Toal’s fellow justices donâ€™t do the right thing and make public the ABA’s report is baffling and disheartening. After all, what can King Jean really do to them?

By: Scandal

Scandal — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 19:28:13 +0000

Wow, that article linked really shows that Beatty Ashmore is a liar an unethical guy. And anyone can find an unnamed source to back-up anything. What a joke.