Another example of lawyers protecting lawyers?
In July of this year, I filed a complaint against assistant regulation counsel Louise Culberson-Smith (found here:
http://www.knowyourcourts.com/CARC/correspondence/2006-07-21_fax-to-CSCARC.pdf). Essentially, my complaint alleged that it was improper that she had not substituted herself with any one of the several other assistant regulation counsel attorneys and that she continued to intercept my grievance memoranda despite that she was a defendant in my law-suit (found here:
http://www.knowyourcourts.com/Harrington/05CV01858.htm and here:
http://www.knowyourcourts.com/Harrington/06-1418.htm ). Obviously, how might one reasonably expect Culberson-Smith to "adjudge" my complaints, where her objectivity is in question.
Pursuant to the protocol (found here:
http://www.knowyourcourts.com/CARC/resources/2004-05-27_protocol-for-complaints-filed-with-the-ARC.pdf ), I requested that my complaint be handled by the Attorney Regulation Committee of the Supreme Court. After many months, they exonerated Culberson-Smith (I was sooooo surprised at that outcome!). Further, the Committee declined to review Culberson-Smith's disposition of my prior grievance memoranda (those that were acknowledged). The result of their purported analysis is found here:
http://www.knowyourcourts.com/CARC/correspondence/2006-09-09_memo-from-Steven-Jacobson.pdfI followed up with Steven Jacobson, the Chairman of the Committee, in September, complaining that some seven (7) of my grievance memoranda had simply been ignored. (
http://www.knowyourcourts.com/CARC/correspondence/2006-09-22_letter-to-Steven-Jacobson.pdf ). My understanding is that the Rules, of course, require that grievance memoranda be addressed (see, e.g., Colo.R.Civ.P. 251.9). Mr. Jacobson ignored me. Undeterred, I followed-up again this month. (http://www.knowyourcourts.com/CARC/correspondence/2006-12-10_memo-toStevenJacobson.pdf ).
I'd like to thank Mr. Jacobson for his commitment to his position as Chairman of this esteemed Committee: Earlier this week, Mr. Jacobson took time out of his busy schedule at Collins & Rafik in Boulder to address my concerns with a one-sentence, eight-word answer: "Dear Mr. Harrington: The attached letter was mailed to you in September." He graciously attached another copy of the Committee's disposition described in the second paragraph hereinabove.
Apparently, one or more paragraphs addressing the seven unanswered complaint-memoranda was contained on the Committee’s September 9th 2006 letter, but was printed with invisible or disappearing ink. Tomorrow, I will go down to the scientific supply store to see if they can furnish me with a UV light powerful enough to illuminate the invisible text. Alternatively, I admit that it is possible that a message regarding the seven unanswered complaint memoranda was encoded cryptically into the visible paragraphs of the September 9th letter. Given my limited cryptology training and experience in the Army (98G) from the early 90’s, I may be able to decipher a code, if any, if given enough time. I will report back my results in a future bLAWg comment and I appreciate the author’s indulgence in allowing me to do so.