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The Colorado Supreme Court Notices Francis M. Pignatelli

| February 4, 2009

Via John Wesley Hall’s Law of Criminal Defense: The Colorado Supreme Court Office of Attorney Regulation today announced that it has filed a petition to immediately suspend Colorado lawyer Francis (Frank) M. Pignatelli from the practice of law. The petition is now pending before Supreme Court Presiding Disciplinary Judge William Lucero. (Thanks to federal appellate [...]

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Pignatelli Revisited

| January 29, 2009

If, like Francis M. Pignatelli, you moved from Ohio under a cloud and started representing people in Colorado, you wouldn’t even have to read the rules in their entirety to find it; it’s right there in Rule 1.2(a) of the Colorado Rules of Professional Conduct: In a criminal case, the lawyer shall abide by the [...]

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What Kind of Schmuck Would Hire Frank Pignatelli?

| January 26, 2009

From a post, The Nature of the Job, last October: Clients sometimes think that they want a lawyer who will act unethically for them, but they don’t: first, because a defense based on lies is almost always doomed to fail; and second, because clients need lawyers they can trust. Unethical lawyers are . . . [...]

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