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Thursday November 30, 2000; 11:16 AM ET

Thompson Calls on Supremes to Nix Boies in Florida

The trial lawyer community, unwilling to offend the Democrats
they depend on for so much business, has been largely silent on
the ethical breaches of lead Gore attorney David Boies as the
election crisis plays out in Florida.

Not so NewsMax.com's Jack Thompson, an attorney who, unlike
Boies, is licensed to practice in the Sunshine State.

After filing a complaint Wednesday against Boies with several
legal disciplinary committees in New York (the state where he
actually is licensed to practice), Thompson is on the warpath
again.

Today he fired off this missive to the chief justice of the
Florida Supreme Court:

Dear Chief Justice Wells:

As you know, New York attorney David Boies is not admitted to
practice law in the State of Florida. He is doing so by special
dispensation of this Court by means of his temporary pro hoc
vice status. You must revoke that privilege.

Why? On behalf of the Gore-Lieberman campaign, Mr. Boies put
before you and the other six Justices an affidavit from a
participant in Pullen v. Milligan, 561 NE2d 585 (Ill 1990),
which has been proven false. Mr. Boies used that false affidavit
to misrepresent to you all the ultimate resolution in Pullen.

Additionally, aided by the false affidavit, Mr. Boies used
dicta, or extraneous language, from the Pullen decision to make
it appear as though "dimpled chads" were counted as votes, when
in fact just the opposite was the result in Pullen.

You cite prominently Pullen in your historic November 21 ruling.
This ruling was relied upon by the Broward County canvassing
board. You have been hoodwinked. The board was hoodwinked.
America was hoodwinked.

Let us be generous and assume Mr. Boies simply did not have the
time or staff to research Pullen carefully. After all, his
firm's web site (www.bsfllp.com) links to all the mainstream
media's articles proving that he is the most brilliant lawyer in
America, and surely such a lawyer was a victim in all this. A
man of such reputation would not bend the truth for a client.

Surely now, however, Mr. Boies knows the truth, now that the
Chicago Tribune has proven that the affidavit upon which you
relied is false and that the result in Pullen is the opposite of
what Mr. Boies has told you.

I have shared with Mr. Boies directly, in writing, his victim
status in this regard, and I have pointed out to him his clear
duty to come to you and admit the "mistake," upon which you all
relied.

Mr. Boies refuses to do so.

Maybe his refusal is for lack of time. Mr. Boies was tied up in
front of Leon County Circuit Court Judge Sauls insisting that
the Judge sign an order on a ruling not yet rendered by Judge
Sauls, so that Mr. Boies could appeal his non-decision to the
Florida Supreme Court before there is even a hearing.

Your Honor, I went to Vanderbilt Law School with Al Gore, and he
dropped out before taking the mandatory third year course
entitled "Legal Ethics," so he has an excuse for asking his
lawyer to engage in the tactics that have made Mr. Boies a
victim.

But I would ask you to ask Mr. Boies what is his excuse for
failing to admit to you all that you improperly relied upon
Pullen.

His mistake is no longer a mistake; it is now a calculation. He,
by his knowing silence, has calculated that you seven Justices
will not care that the most important judicial opinion of the
year is based upon a lie.

I respectfully ask the Florida Supreme Court to begin
immediately, as you have the right to do, proceedings to revoke
the pro hoc vice privilege of Mr. Boies to practice law without
a license in our state, a state he has made the laughingstock of
the world.

In doing so, please afford Mr. Boies all the equal protection he
has afforded the voters in our fair state who were foolish
enough to live in Republican counties.

By the way, today's NY Post reports that Mr. Boies is laboring
under an ethics investigation in New York State, as he is
presently accused of paying a fact witness to testify. You can
read the story today at www.nypost.com/gossip/pagesix.htm  on the
Internet. A copy of the story is attached hereto.

Please cleanse your ruling of its false foundation. Cleanse our
state of Mr. Boies.

Respectfully, Jack Thompson


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