Time: Fri Aug 22 03:14:58 1997
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 1997 03:10:49 -0700
To: (Recipient list suppressed)
From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in toolbar]
Subject: SLF: demand to Morrison & Heckler
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MEMO
TO: John Oppedahl, CEO, Phoenix Newspapers, Inc.
and
Frank G. Long, Unregistered Foreign Agent
Morrison & Hecker, L.L.P., Attorneys at Law
2800 North Central Avenue, Suite 1600
Phoenix 85004-1047/tdc
ARIZONA STATE
tel: (602) 279-1600
fax: (602) 240-6925
FROM: Paul Andrew, Mitchell, B.A., M.S.
Counselor at Law
DATE: August 21, 1997
SUBJECT: Please Turn Off the Pressure!
PRELIMINARY COMPLAINT OF ATTORNEY MALPRACTICE
Dear Frank:
I have received your fax communication yesterday. I honestly do
not agree with you when you say that it is "essential" that I
sign your proposed Settlement Agreement by Friday noon (i.e.
tomorrow). Since I have not even read it, I am not in any
position to cite provisions which justify such haste. Your
"deadline" is artificial and contrived, at best.
You are quite wrong to conclude that I am not serious about
resolving our "dispute" amicably. On the contrary, I have
already gone way out of my way to explain our situation, and to
take steps to ensure that your position is also recognized. If
what you say is true (and it is not true), I would not have taken
the initiative to begin editing our huge database in honor of
your request.
I fail to see where such excessive pressure tactics are going to
get you what you want, unless there is, indeed, some real hidden
agenda grounding your intentions.
What are your true and complete intentions, Mr. Long?
Is it the original Thirteenth Amendment?
Is it the all important difference between the USDC and the DCUS?
Are you, in fact, colluding with staff of the federal judiciary
in Phoenix and/or Tucson, and with the Pima County Attorneys
office in Tucson, to impede, halt, obstruct, or compromise the
services we are obligated to deliver to our clients?
If you are, then you may be putting yourself in a position of
liability for obstructing justice. But, as a licensed attorney,
you don't need me to be telling you these things, do you?
I can honestly say to you that I have already made major
commitments to more than one client, to complete their work as
soon as possible, and hopefully before the end of the business
day on Friday (tomorrow). In light of their paramount needs, I
worked all last weekend on the editing which I have already
described to you. This good faith on my part is, evidently, just
not enough for you. This saddens me deeply.
If you persist in pressuring me in the way that you have
yesterday, I would have to regard such pressure as an attempt by
you deliberately to impede the delivery of essential professional
services to clients who are facing imminent incarceration, by the
same hostile federal judiciary with which you appear to be
colluding and conspiring. Is this only an appearance, Mr. Long,
or are you in fact colluding with the offices of Mr. Richard H.
Weare in Phoenix and Tucson, and with the office of the Pima
County Attorney in Tucson?
You do not have any right to impair the obligations of my prior
contracts, in particular because all licensed attorneys, as
officers of the courts in which they are admitted to practice,
must be able to demonstrate that they have taken an oath to
support the U.S. Constitution. Have you? I have no contract
with you or Phoenix Newspapers, Inc., verbal or written, at this
point in time; and, furthermore, if you do not immediately begin
to demonstrate at least a gram of professional consideration for
my prior commitments and obligations, I will take your refusal in
this regard as seriously as possible.
My clients have a fundamental Right to counsel of their choice,
under the Sixth Amendment, and you now given me cause to conclude
that you are more than willing to interfere with my priorities
and obligations to these clients. This is a violation of their
fundamental right to effective assistance of Counsel and, as
such, it constitutes probable cause to charge you with violating
18 U.S.C. 242 -- deprivation of fundamental Rights under color of
law -- and possibly also 18 U.S.C. 241 -- conspiracy to deprive
fundamental Rights. This is a fair gentleman's warning to you,
Mr. Long.
Since you have failed to demonstrate any specific reason why your
artificial deadline warrants a total upheaval in my crowded and
pressing schedule, I must politely demand hereby that you
immediately cease and desist any further pressure tactics. I
think you know exactly what I am talking about here. I certainly
hope that you don't make a habit of such unethical behavior.
If you do not understand exactly what I am talking about here,
please advise in writing, and I will elaborate in excruciating
detail, but only after my other pressing obligations are met, in
a timely and professional manner.
I will look forward to your immediate cooperation in this regard.
Please fax me evidence of your oath of office, no later than noon
on Monday next (August 25, 1997). That gives you the whole
weekend to locate it. If you do not, I will proceed on the basis
of probable cause that you are not who you say you are, and that
you fully intend to continue, and to foster, a program of
intentional harassment, misrepresentation, and retaliation
against a known federal witness, in deliberate and premeditated
violation of 18 U.S.C. 1512 & 1513. Again, you have been warned.
Thank you for obeying American Law never repealed. I really
don't want to fight with you, Mr. Long, but I will fight if I
must and if you give me no other alternative.
Sincerely yours,
/s/ Paul Mitchell
Paul Andrew, Mitchell, B.A., M.S.
Counselor at Law and federal witness
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