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 [This text is formatted in Courier 11, non-proportional spacing.] 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 c/o 2509 N. 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