Comments on: Texas Supreme Court Justice Nathan Hecht Charged with New Ethics Violation

By: rafflaw

rafflaw — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 01:37:35 +0000

This judge is as dirty as George W. Bush and Harriet Miers. When you don’t follow the law, you can’t be surprised that there are negative consequences. These ethics laws always seem to be troublesome to Republicans. Their arrogance is what gets them in trouble.

By: Josh

Josh — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:42:29 +0000

Dundar,

I already have admitted I am not an attorney, however, reversed or lifted, whichever syntax you use, your statement is still not clear to me that he was “proven… innocent”.

Anyway, I’m not sure it matters. If he committed an ethics violation during his defense, it is seperate and apart from the original violation, true or not. Similar to a man on trial for a murder he didn’t commit, who murders the oposing council in an attempt to get off. He’d still be guilty of murder. Wouldn’t he?

Or is it a mitigating factor for you that he wouldn’t have murdered had he not been on trial?

By: dundar

dundar — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 15:49:52 +0000

Josh: According to the report the sanctions were REVERESED on appeal, not lifted as you chose to write. That would tell me he never should have been sanctioned in the first place.

By: Someone Who Knows In Texas

Someone Who Knows In Texas — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 15:36:34 +0000

Past experience with Justice Hecht has shown:
1) He has usually not been particularly careful about playing by the rules.
2) He doesn’t do his homework when he is facing a challenge; he depends on his “good ol’ boy” charm to get things done.
3) Rumors abound in Dallas and Austin about the suspicious nature of his relationship with Harriet Mier. The question has always been: Who is the beard for whose homosexuality in this odd couple?
4) He spouts lies with the ease of a snake oil salesman.

No, he was NOT found innocent on appeal. He just tried to weasel his way out of it again, as usual. Hoping to get his fellow Republican cronies to look the other way — one more time.

“Hecht, right”? No, Hecht wrong! Yet another Republican politician hiding behind Christianity, yet proving by his actions that he certainly is not one.

By: Josh

Josh — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 14:01:37 +0000

“So Hecht, who spent $440,000 on legal costs on an appeal that proved him innocent of a charge.” – Dundar

That’s not what he said, he said the sanctions were lifted. I’m no attorney, but I’m not certain it necissarily implies he was found innocent on appeal.

By: Josh

Josh — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 13:51:57 +0000

Maybe he had a coupon.

By: zakimar

zakimar — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 13:27:53 +0000

My biggest concern with this story is that lawyers can rack up $440 000 fees. Some lawyers make millions in fees from class action suits, where they don’t necessarily work much harder or longer than with a single plaintiff.

By: dundar

dundar — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 13:23:17 +0000

So Hecht, who spent $440,000 on legal costs on an appeal that proved him innocent of a charge, is now accused of not properly disclosing he negotiated a $100,000 discount of those costs he never should have had to incur in the first place……

Hmmmmmmm.