Whistleblower Puts Virginia Supreme Court on Trial
By Ed
Truncellito, JD
June 5, 2022
Yesterday seven Justices of the
Virginia Supreme Court were put on trial in their own court by attorney Linda
Kennedy who was disbarred last year.
The Justices had the spotlight
turned around on them when Kennedy addressed them from the podium. Kennedy
was there to appeal her disbarment for violating the First Unwritten Rule of
Virginia Legal Ethics: do not embarrass the Virginia Bar by blowing the
whistle on white-collar crimes they commit against an unwitting Virginia
public.
Kennedy began by throwing Chief Justice Leroy Rountree Hassell,
Sr. off guard. She complimented him saying she heard him preach the Gospel
of Jesus Christ at Regent University. Maybe he momentarily forgot that
a similar tactic was used by the Apostle Paul to subdue King Agrippa.
The Justice straightened up and beamed with pride as he was reminded of
the distinction that Regent bestowed upon him in the eyes of his
black community by honoring him as a professor of law and
theology.
Next Kennedy quoted a second one of the Justices, a woman, who
was published as stating that legal process must always be above
suspicion. Kennedy thanked her for the statement but added that the
message apparently has not yet reached the Virginia Bar.
Kennedy
silenced a third Justice by interrupting his question and asking that the
Justices not ask her any more questions. She said they had a copy of her
written brief, and she wanted to use her entire 15 minutes to explain to them
in person how their legal system has become disgracefully corrupt. And if
that did not convince them, then nothing ever would.
Nonetheless a
moment later a fourth Justice, another woman, interrupted to ask if she
understood correctly that Kennedy did not want to answer their questions,
perhaps implying that Kennedy had something to hide. But Kennedy rebuked her.
Kennedy said it could not have been made any plainer: "no questions." The
Justice pushed herself back in her chair showing consternation, but she had
nothing more to say.
Having silenced the Justices, Kennedy then proceeded
--- shall we say "earnestly" --- to "chew their butts" as plain folk in
Virginia would call it.
Good for you, Kennedy, because the buck stops
here. These Justices are the senior officers of the Virginia Bar whose
lawyers are trying to cover up the fact that Kennedy caught them red-handed
falsifying the very court record that these Justices had sitting right there
under their noses on the bench. The legal process that brought them the
case record was not merely suspicious. It was blatantly
fraudulent.
Kennedy had fished through the trial court's trash cans and
found the trial court's handwritten notes that the trial judge had
approved falsifications of the trial record to cover up perjury by the
lawyer who heads the Virginia Bar's Ethics Committee.
Kennedy has
audiotapes that prove what the Ethics leader really said, in his own recorded
voice. But the trial court cut out the part of the record where the trial
judge refused to allow those audiotapes to be played. Ironically, the trial
judge's comments were falsified in the record claiming he said he would have
exonerated Kennedy if only she could have proved what the audiotapes in fact
do prove.
Talk about smoking guns. But this is just one of the more
glaring cases. It is an open secret that records are being falsified
routinely in cases all over the state and all over the country while the
high courts hear it with a deaf ear. Zed McLarnon, a forensic
audio-visual expert, has documented that transcripts in Massachusetts courts
are altered with the knowledge of court personnel. In Indiana,
Rebecca Rohrs has conclusively documented literally thousands of alterations
in hearing transcripts in a child custody case. "This is
criminal misconduct," attorney Eugene Wrona says of similar practices
in Pennsylvania, "and these people belong in jail."
Further, it is
notorious that lawyer whistleblowers can all expect to share Kennedy's fate.
Law students are misled like the public, being told in law school that law is
an honorable profession. Not until they begin practicing do they discover how
money really changes hands. Only after they have invested years in their law
school education are they taught that they must maintain an unwritten code of
secrecy. Then they shut up --- or they are disbarred.
After Kennedy's
15 minutes, Chief Justice Leroy Rountree Hassell, Sr. told her the time was
up. Kennedy announced that there was no need for her to listen to her
opponent's excuses or comment on them. Then she walked out with some of the
30 supporters who accompanied her including pastors and lawyers.
The
Justices in this case will pronounce a verdict on themselves.
If they
order a full investigation and a new trial of Kennedy's disbarment, then the
Justices will have pronounced their innocence. Otherwise, Regent ought to
reconsider whom they allow to preach to our youth.