Comments on: Super Kay: Attorney Acts As Both Defense Attorney and Prosecutor for Local Businessman

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Fri, 30 Jan 2009 12:13:45 +0000

[...] recently we saw a lawyer in Wisconsin who assumed the role of both prosecutor and defense attorney for [...]

By: mespo727272

mespo727272 — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 00:43:17 +0000

swg63:

“How can Mr.Kay do his job, either as a prosecutor or defense attorney without prejudice? That is not considering the ethics involved.”
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You’ve got it. He can’t and he knows it, and that’s the reason for the “ethics involved.”

By: swg63

swg63 — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 00:33:51 +0000

How can Mr.Kay do his job, either as a prosecutor or defense attorney without prejudice? That is not considering the ethics involved.

By: rafflaw

rafflaw — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 23:09:37 +0000

Seamus,
You are right that in collar counties and downstate counties, cities and towns hire private lawyers to prosecute their misdemeanor cases, including driving infractions and others. This in itself is not a problem. The problem is when this Kay guy wants to play both sides of the fence and for some reason doesn’t see the problem with that. He needs to be disciplined by the bar association and Oconomowoc needs to hire another firm to prosecute files.

By: seamus

seamus — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:22:20 +0000

I’ve seen similar situations in the collar counties surrounding Chicago. Towns often hire private firms as “city prosecutors”. These same firms also often (usually) do defense work in the same building. Although they handle only misdemeanors, withe the State’s Attorney handling felonies, the system really does reek.

Then again, this is Illinois. I may have to stop mocking Texas. Hook ‘em Horns.