Los Angeles Times reporter Matt Lait failed to inform readers that a critic of overcrowded jails is himself a convicted felon. [No, this is not a NewsBusted joke but check the bottom of the post if you want to make it one.]
What's more, Stephen Yagman is no petty one-time offender, notes Patterico:
There’s just one little thing about Yagman that The Times’s Matt Lait neglects to mention: Yagman is going to have a hard time continuing to represent these inmates . . . because he has been convicted of numerous felonies in federal court, and is likely headed to federal prison.
Indeed, the State Bar has taken notice, and has put Yagman on interim suspension. As the Metropolitan News-Enterprise reported on September 14:
The Sept. 7 [State Bar Membership Records] report listed civil rights attorney Stephen Yagman as among those recently placed on interim suspension following criminal convictions. Yagman, who was suspended Aug. 23, was convicted in federal court June 22 on one count of tax evasion, one count of bankruptcy fraud, and 17 counts of money laundering.
Although he was later acquitted by the judge of six of those counts, he remains convicted of thirteen felonies. He is certain to be disbarred.
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The heart of this story is
September 24, 2007 - 12:35 ET by jdhawkThe heart of this story is not that Yagman should have not just been suspended, but disbarred, as he is a convicted felon, but that there is an almost certainty that prisoners that were made to sleep on the floor will win a class action suit against the county of Los Angeles. This is an outrage that a sitting judge would rule in favor of these former convicts and cause them to be compensated for this.
So to recap:
American soldiers are fighting and dying for this country while sleeping standing up in some cases and former prisoners are being compensated for having had to sleep on a concrete floor.
I can tell you that I spent months at a time sleeping on the ground (dirt) in snow, sleet, sweltering jungle, etc. while in the Army.
What is wrong with our judges?
Stephen Yagman is a Class-A
September 24, 2007 - 12:56 ET by fitzfongStephen Yagman is a Class-A scumbag. He is a bitter anti-law enforcement slip-and-fall lawyer. Anyone who remembers that pair of bank robbers about 10 years ago who got into that epic machine gun shootout with LAPD after hitting up a few L.A. banks one morning will remember that Yagman represented their surviving family members in a lawsuit against the department and the city. A completely meritless lawsuit brought on by the same creep who represented that UCLA Library terrorist who campus police tasered. Yagman was on the John and Ken Show on KFI Los Angeles earlier this year to defend another of his nuisance anti-police lawsuits. He didn't last very long, for as soon as John Kobylt laid a glove on him, he said "F--- you" and hung up. A real cowardly creep who deserves all he's going to get.
As I've said before, nearly
September 24, 2007 - 13:44 ET by MikeBAs I've said before, nearly everyone in prison or jail is a volunteer. We all hear about how America has more people in prison/jail than any other nation in the world. Even if this little factoid is true, so what? If you libs are so concerned about prison overcrowding, how about a three strikes and you're dead law? Execute the habitual criminal. I'll bet that will relieve the prison overcrowding while reducing the over all crime rate.
"A communist is someone who reads Marx. An anti-communist is someone who understands Marx." Ronald Reagan
"Yagman is going to have a
September 24, 2007 - 15:18 ET by Conservative_in_mass."Yagman is going to have a hard time continuing to represent these inmates . . . because he has been convicted of numerous felonies in federal court, and is likely headed to federal prison."
Looks like the pokey is going to be getting a bit MORE crowded.
The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese. ~ Unknown
prison population.
September 24, 2007 - 21:39 ET by PKour prison populations run about .4% of the population of the united states. so if the united states population increases it stands to reason that the prison population will increase also.
so why don't we just put a line item in the budget every year to keep building to reflect the increase.
also the vast majority of those whining for modifying prison conditions and releasing miscreants to stop "overcrowding" seem to have a nearest and dearest behind bars that they want to get out.
but we don't talk about that cause it might not be neat.
its so nice to see steve getting together with so much of his client list.