Jack Thompson disbarred in an enhanced manner

[kane_magus]

Just curious, does anyone more familiar with lawyer type stuff than I am who may read this happen to know what "enhanced disbarment" means? Mostly, I'm curious about the "enhanced" bit, and Google isn't being particularly helpful in providing a meaning at the moment.

Comments

[alessar.livejournal.com]

As far as I can infer, it's the extra long period of 10 years. :D

He's such a crackpot!

[owsf2000.livejournal.com]

BAsed on the comments and the like, disbarment is essentially a permanent thing although a lawyer must wait a minimum of 5 years before they can even ask for the disbarment to be removed. In this enhanced disbarment Jack will have to wait a minimum of 10 years before he can even request it be removed. - and this doesn't mean he will be getting his license back after the 10yrs are up. It's merely the earliest he'll be able to get it back.

Since it must be shown that he's a danger at the time of disbarment, to have it removed after those 10 years are up it must be shown that he's no longer a danger. If he tries to fight the accusations that he was dangerous to begin with, he'll automatically fail to get it removed. So given Jack's personality (He stomped out of the courtroom claiming the judge didn't have the authority to disbar him.) it's pretty much a given he'll never be practicing law again. It would be fun to see him attempt it tho, because he'll be arrested and thrown in jail for practicing law without a license. :)

[rabbitucker.livejournal.com]

What the...?!

Well... This is an interesting turn of events.

Is it possible for him to get re-barred in another state during his enhanced disbarment?

[gbeans.livejournal.com]

From what I understand it's technically possible, but extremely unlikely. The states don't usually toss their trash onto another state's yard...

[owsf2000.livejournal.com]

Is it possible for him to get re-barred in another state during his enhanced disbarment?

! A major asshole that is disrespectful of the court system and that has already been disbarred for countless abuses of said system despite many chances and warnings over the course of a couple decades is attempting to be barred in your district. Cancel/Allow

[rabbitucker.livejournal.com]

Hey, you'd be surprised. Jerks like him tend to come back in other places, in other forms.

Case in point: Ray Ellison. Here in San Antonio, he built houses that were cheap, but fell apart in as little as 5-10 years. He got shut down by the government. He came back later, building houses with a new company, RayCo. They were just as shoddy, and the state stepped in. They would've shut him down a second time, had the company not been purchased by K-B. They still build cheap crap that falls apart.

Hence, my question about the next possible incarnation of Jack Thompson.

[kane-magus.livejournal.com]

I don't know myself whether it is possible or not, but I'd guess that it probably is theoretically possible. However, I would hope that no state bar in anything even remotely resembling a sound state of mind would consider, for even the briefest of moments, touching him with a 100-foot pole.

I could totally see him getting some kind of no-class talk show or something similar though, perhaps on FOX News.

[owsf2000.livejournal.com]

The difference there is that the people really affected by the shoddy houses are the people who bought them - not the state government. In the case of thompson getting rebarred, the people that have the power to step in and say yes/no are the ones who will end up being threatened and disrespected if they say yes. (IE: Whenever they later disagree with whatever crap he's pulled out of his ass, just like he did repeatedly and often with the Florida Bar)

That being said, I don't have a lot of confidence in the American system these days so I agree, it could still happen anyway.

Addition...

[sailorrepublica.livejournal.com]

It's not just that he will not be able to practice law in Florida, but because of the case and the fact that he will probably be unable to practice law in Florida, many other states are going to have problems with him in giving a license. Such states include:

Oregon, Washington, Minnesota, Missouri, Georgia, New York, Maine, Arizona, California, Texas.

I found out about this after this story came out, and after making a call to a friend that works at the U of O Law Library.

[gbeans.livejournal.com]

I don't think we should be malicious towards him. He does a wonderful job of presenting a cracked-pot point of view of the world that the rest of the planet just kinda tilts their had at him and goes "bwah?" Most people have the marbles to rub together and come to a reasonable conclusion. The ones that don't were already of his opinion, so convincing them otherwise would likely be a wasted effort.

Having said that: Anyone who uses our legal system as a bludgeon to assault a person, business, or industry--regardless of whom or what those are--deserves to be reigned in harshly. He's in the process of reaping what he himself has sowed. There's a certain beauty in that... I'd think of it as karma or even more profoundly, life's execution of the Golden Rule.

The only sad part of this whole affair, well, two saddest parts is that Jack Thompson cannot be compelled to, well, shut up. The other (though he can be compelled) is to seek psychriatric help. I don't think everything is well with him mentally or emotionally if he feels as much venom towards an industry that I'm not sure has even caused him any unprovoked harm o.oa

[kane-magus.livejournal.com]

He has already undergone at least two, I think, court ordered psychiatric evaluations, both of which he apparently passed. Somehow.

[korby.livejournal.com]

"Enhanced" just means he's an extra special kind of douchebag. That, and what Dion said about the extra long waiting period.