Buddha and the Chocolate Factory

as sanctions pile up, California State Bar may take closer look at erratic court behavior of Darryl Genis, DUI lawyer and defender...

I was sitting there staring at the Buddha statue when I heard a little bell go off in my head...actually it was the Westminster chimes from my old clock I got from a Thrift store..it's way too cool...
but after my minute of spiritual connectiveness, I came back to reality and concluded that some folks must be possessed by demons..Wendy of course and I think DUI lawyer Darryl Genis...THE POWER OF CHRIST COMPELS YOU!! THE POWER OF CHRIST COMPELS YOU!!

but really, when Noozhawk and the News-Press came out in support of drunk driving, I was mortified! now I know that the publishers of these media have had personal drug issues, but to blame the cops for doing their jobs, jobs which Noozhawk and the News-Press know nothing about, then I knew something was amiss....and that something is lack of professionalism...when you have a job, you get paid to carry out your duties..a news organization should not be smearing local gov't employees because they don't happen to like the gov't or unions..gov't watchdogs are fine and necessary, but what if the watchdogs are full of fleas? well, that's where the rest of us come in...we need to count the fleas..

ok...so today we got some fleas to deal with...actually this poor boy Darryl Genis is covered in fleas...I could call him Lord of the Fleas! now, during the Lance DUI hearing, I watched Lance and Darryl  disrupt the courtroom, throw temper tantrums, watched Lance get escorted from the courtroom and other displays of ids gone wild....I've been a critic of Genis and many others before me have too...but defending drunk drivers just seems like such a low calling....and the courtroom antics are just plain silly...

I witnessed Darryl's creepiness firsthand so I'm not surprised that sanctions are finally coming his way ...and the California State Bar may start to take notice as well....

of course Darryl G has got allies in the News-Press with Scott Steepleton as his personal reporter....but here's something I don't think the News-Press or Noozhawk will report: it seems that the court in SLO is not amused at Darryl's unlawyerly conduct...the outbursts, the tantrums, the name-calling that Darryl uses to advocate for his DUI clients is more a behavioral problem than a defense strategy...maybe Darryl eats too many sugary chocolate bars??

here's some of what the court in SLO had to say recently about Darryl's behavior during a recent DUI trial where his client pleaded non contest to DUI....court: "it's not an overstatement to categorize Appellant's oral argument as a parade of insults and affronts..throughout, the trial judge was castigated, disparaged and even the subject of a veiled threat"..

a veiled threat?? really? howz about a more generous sanction.. like say $5000!!

Scott and Darryl share a tender moment

but in order for Darryl to have a chance defending drunk drivers, he needs to show how corrupt the DA is, the judges are and the cops are for arresting his clients in the first place!! this is an absurd tactic as we are seeing in the higher profile cases like Lance and Denunzio....as the backgrounds and motives of the arrested guys are discovered, we see chronic cases of domestic violence, alcohol abuse and other destructive behaviors...


as long as the enablers like the News-Press keep helping Genis and Lance and DeNunzio, they will keep doing it...until the courts get serious with hack lawyers and drunk drivers...