The likes of Kyle Rittenhouse and Nicholas Sandmann are going to have to look further for legal counsel these days. Lin Wood is no longer an attorney, proving once again the adage Everything Trump Touches Dies — or in this case, resigns. Wood has been under fire from the State Bar of Georgia for some time. They compelled him to have a mental health examination and instituted Bar proceedings against him. Wood has decided that the easiest way to deal with this issue is to resign.
Here is his letter of resignation.
It will be interesting if the Bar gives him the option to retire gracefully or if they intend to continue disbarment proceedings. I don’t know if a lawyer can resign in the middle of a disbarment trial, that’s an interesting question to explore. I know that you can resign when disbarment is imminent — meaning the Bar intends to proceed but has not yet done so — because I knew a lawyer in California who did just that. He was young and by far his better career option was to resign and go into another profession rather than to be disgraced in the one he was in.
Bottom line, however Wood leaves the practice of law, he should be prosecuted for attempting to overthrow the United States government. I don’t think most people personally care about the details of whether he resigned from the legal profession or was thrown out of it, but everybody cares about what he did before and after January 6. Maybe Wood figures the resignation will get him off the hook from providing information about that, and that isn’t right.
Let’s see what happens. John Eastman is in a disbarment trial in California right now and Jeffrey Clark was complaining to Steve Bannon the other day that the District of Columbia Bar is looking into disbarment proceedings.
I can only wonder what Trump’s current team of lawyers must be thinking, watching all this go down. Run, is my suggestion. While you’ve still got a bar card in your wallet and a shred of dignity left, run, run for the hills.
“Bottom line, however Wood leaves the practice of law, he should be prosecuted for attempting to overthrow the United States government. I don’t think most people personally care about the details of whether he resigned from the legal profession or was thrown out of it, but everybody cares about what he did before and after January 6. Maybe Wood figures the resignation will get him off the hook from providing information about that, and that isn’t right.”
If Wood truly thinks that, he must’ve missed more than a few classes during his days in law school. If anything, his actions connected to the insurrection are all the more heinous because he WAS a lawyer at the time. He SHOULD have known his actions would cross legal and ethical (for the purposes of being an attorney) lines. And, given those actions are primarily responsible for the current disbarment hearings–and, presumably, his letter seeking to “retire” from the practice of law–Wood might actually need to be taken in for some psychiatric observation.
I’m going to be watching the development of this case. I honestly don’t know if a person can resign in the middle of disbarment proceedings. This is the first I’ve ever heard of it and I even phoned a few lawyers/retired lawyers and they are as clueless as I am. But I’m waiting for more returned calls, so maybe somebody knows something.
In all events, whether Wood resigns or is disbarred, that’s a separate issue from his participation in the attempted coup d’etat.
Wood surely knew he was crossing legal and ethical lines but I have no doubt he and the rest of the slimy seditionist rats thought they were going to succeed in overthrowing the government and reinstating the orange one.
Adios. But if guilty of Jan 6 nonsense then say hello to a cell. If these fellers are “mentally unfit” then arkum asylum… yeah know some of history of ussr using mental facilities for evil. But the USA must sometimes lock up some folks for greater good🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
If there is any justice, Wood will be disbarred. Retirement gives him respectability he in no way deserves.
ALPHA MIKE FOXTROT!
With such a high level of, “Name recognition”, all these twits need to hide pretty good, if they want to avoid good-ole tar and feathers treatment by pissed citizens … Prison regulars with just a hint of Country first, these nimrods all go away somehow …
I STILL find it hard to believe the Republicans floating their charges to Biden and family at our expense … Gym Jordan outlining a stupid, ‘charge the Democrats’, with weapons of government, while he publicly flaps his own jaws of stupidity with false witnesses and lies of attacks here and there, THEN, to be amusing, they want to attack Adam Schiff, a red flag that Trump is pulling his own shit because, well, he hates that Schiff, knows stuff and charges Trump and family, with the greatest of ease … every day, Trump himself blows his possibility of any surviving the next few weeks without a new bright orange wardrobe …
The Courts are waiting impatiently for their turns at skewering the infantile blimp, an action that will certainly deflate his pompous ass …
With this Weekend of flags and fireworks, we notice those massive bombs in the air that, with their expansive balls of bright colors, I’m thinking the general Public may need some flack jackets when Trump finally becomes speechless as the judge reads off all his charges, along with his term in prison and lack of time for good behavior, since he is bioactivating trash ALL the time …
Happy Forth to All …
Having been forced away from one bar, I wonder if. like Giuliani, he’ll prop himself up at another.
Indict them all. I’m thinking seditious conspiracy, but I’m no lawyer. As a bonus, strip every insurrectionist of his/her citizenship.
That’s a good idea , and take away their voting rights !