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Anti-military lawyer key-jobs Marine's car
Marine Sgt Mike McNulty is on activation orders to Iraq (second tour). On December 1st, 2007, Mike went to visit a friend in Chicago before deploying to say goodbye. In order to get to his friend's residence, and keep in mind that Chicago is a myriad of diagonal and one-way streets, the front entrance (right way) to the one-way street was blocked. Mike, being a Marine, overcame and adapted by driving around the block to the other end of the street and backing up all the way to his friend's place. While saying goodbye, at about 11am, he noticed a man leaning up against his car. Mike left his friend's apartment and caught the man keying his car on multiple sides. The police report states: Victim related to P/O that as he walked back to his vehicle, he observed the offender leaning up against his vehicle and rubbed/dragged his left arm and hand across the passenger side. As offender walked away from victim's vehicle, victim observed a scratch along the rear trunk and passenger's door area where offender dragged his arm and hand over. Victim and witness stopped offender and confronted him. Victim has military plates and decals on his vehicle and offender made anti war and military comments to victim. Upon P/O's arrival to scene, offender denied scratch victim's vehicle, but did admit to rubbing past it. Victim at this time did not sign complaint, because he is leaving tour for military duty. Offender said they accused him of scratching the car because he is Jewish. Offender's statements/responses to P/O's questions unreasonable. As it turns out, the man is Chicago lawyer Jay R. Grodner, who owns a law firm in the city and has offices in the suburbs. To make a long story short: Atty. Grodner is attempting to string the matter out until Sgt. McNulty ships out, after which it would be dismissed for lack of a complaining witness. There are, perhaps, a few things we can do: 1. Blackfive has Atty. Grodner's office contact information on his website. Should you choose to express yourself directly, please be polite, avoid foul language, and do not make threats. If you do any of these things, you will only give Atty. Grodner something to go after you on, by either a civil suit or a criminal complaint, and something he can post to DU or Daily Kos to gain sympathy with. 2. If anyone is a member of the Illinois bar and wants to take on Sgt. McNulty as a pro bono client, that would be nice. (I'd do it, but I'm not licensed to practice in Illinois.) 3. Regardless of the outcome of the criminal charges, this incident can and should result in action against his law license. There's a website where you can initiate a request for investigation. Posted by: Mike 2007-12-31 |
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