The wheels of the law grind slowly but surely. Lin Wood keeps dancing around the Georgia State Bar’s request that he submit to a mental health evaluation in order to keep his license but he’s wasting his time. Wood accused the Bar of acting in bad faith and demanded that a court grant him an injunction. Wednesday a judge refused the injunction and ruled that the Bar had “ample evidence of conduct warranting a proceeding.” Now that is the understatement of the year so far, take note.
Wood appealed the ruling, because of course he would, but procedural lollygagging is only going to get him so far. He’s not going to escape the due process of the disciplinary board of the Georgia State Bar. They’re going to get him sooner or later and he’s got to know that. Forbes:
WHAT TO WATCH FOR
Wood is still refusing to participate in the mental health evaluation, and the state bar’s rules state that being unwilling to undergo the examination “may be grounds for further proceedings…including emergency suspension proceedings.” In a court filing, however, the state bar members noted that refusing to undergo the evaluation wouldn’t be immediate grounds for Wood having his law license revoked. That would only happen after “an initial finding that the lawyer’s conduct poses a substantial threat of harm to his client or the public,” followed by a hearing by a third-party “special master” at which Wood could make his case for why he shouldn’t be punished. The special master would then have to formally recommend that the license be suspended, and the Georgia Supreme Court would have to accept that recommendation.
CHIEF CRITIC
Wood responded to the ruling against him on Telegram Wednesday, alleging Batten—who also oversaw several of Wood’s unsuccessful post-election lawsuits, and who Wood has tried to have removed from the case—was biased against him. Wood predicted his appeal will succeed if it is “heard by honest judges,” writing, “I will never quit fighting against a corrupt legal system and the corrupt, politically agenda-driven State Bar of Georgia.”
KEY BACKGROUND
The state bar investigation is one of several consequences Wood is facing for his actions post-election. The lawyer has also been removed from unrelated court cases in Delaware and against MSNBC anchor Joy Reid, and the Lawyers Club of Atlanta expelled Wood from their membership in March. Wood is also separately under investigation by the Georgia Secretary of State’s Office, which is probing whether he voted illegally in Georgia after residing out of state in South Carolina.
And don’t forget Wood running off with the money that he raised for Kyle Rittenhouse, and then Rittenhouse fired him. Even if Wood managed to hang onto his law license, which doesn’t look probable, he’s going to have problems getting another right-wing folk hero client after he screwed the last one. He lost the election to become head of the GOP State Republican party in South Carolina, so that’s out. The only thing he’s got left is going on the road with Mike Flynn and Sidney Powell and pushing the Big Lie — and maybe that’s not working out so great, either. You didn’t see him headlining in Dallas a few weeks ago at the QAnon conference did you? And he was listed as a speaker there.
More will be revealed, but from all the puzzle pieces available at this moment, it looks like Lin Wood is toast.
It is obvious that his few remaining brain cells are already toasted, so it is time that the rest of him follows…
All his socalled “fans” will hear is “toasted.”
“Mmmmm, toasted.”
“Even if Wood managed to hang onto his law license, which doesn’t look probable, he’s going to have problems getting another right-wing folk hero client after he screwed the last one.”
Ursula, are you serious? The right-wing have already proved their memories can’t be relied on after 24 hours (witness virtually anything and everything that Trump would say at his rallies) so I’m sure they don’t remember what Wood did to Rittenhouse. Even if they’re shown proof of it, Wood will simply yell “fake news” and they’ll ignore it, then forget all about it within a day.
If the psychiatrist conducting the eval is worth their degree, Wood will be straight-jacketed and put in a padded cell by the halfway point of the interview.