Drank some strong coffee to stay awake before reading the third and final installment of the Globe SpotLite series on the courts and drunk drivers.
Jesus Christ, the only thing I learned from it was if a friend or family member need a OUI attorney I now have three names to give him. Steve Jones, Dan O’Malley, John Diamond. Three of the best lawyers to have go to battle for you.
I don’t believe any sole practitioner out there, no matter how successful, could afford the advertising the Globe SpotLite gave them. The Globe outlined some selective cases that did nothing but show the professional abilities of these three. All the cases cited were legit not guilties. That means the evidence presented in court had reasonable doubt. It does not mean the accident was real bad and the defendant said a lot of stupid things. It also does not mean evidence suppressed because a judge determined that to not do so would violate the defendant’s right under the United States Constitution and The Massachusetts Declaration of Rights.
And it does not mean a defendant willing to pay the right attorney a large sum of money will be found not guilty. The Globe states that in the story as if a fact. Outrageous.
And it does not mean that the rules of evidence and the rights of a defendant should be of less standards than those charged with murder, rape, and child molestation charges.
This crap is expected from the Globe, but I did the ole spit-take with the coffee when I read this condescending and elitist blurb describing the three barristers’ climb up the mountain.
They are hardly the dandies of white-shoe law firms.
O’Malley, the former judge, broke his nose in his days as a heavyweight fighter, when he trained in an upstairs ring in the shadow of the old Boston Garden with Dicky Eklund, the Lowell boxer whom actor Christian Bale portrayed in “The Fighter.’’
Jones quit optometry school and bought a sub shop before bartending his way through law school, then working as a prosecutor. In the early 1990s, Jack Diamond, a prominent OUI lawyer based in Hingham, poured beers at Copperfield’s in Boston to supplement his meager wages as a prosecutor.
How dare these guys become members of the Massachusetts Bar? Sure they probably passed the bar exam on the first try. Not the third like Harvard Law’s Deval Patrick. But really, these guys most likely went to public high schools, or worse Catholic high schools. A boxer? A bartender? A sub shop owner? (you want hots on the Italian sub?) Outrageous. State universities. Suffolk or New England Law most likely. Perhaps even nights. Talk about the lowest of low.
Hey Globies, how did that white shoe law firm do when it asked Judge Carol Ball to release the blatantly unethical and prejudicial “Statement of the Case” Martha Coakley attempted to file in the O’Brien case.
Perhaps you should have hired Attorneys Diamond, O’Malley, or Jones to argue your case.