Former Navy Lawyer Goes Before Kansas Supreme Court
AP News - Mon 03:42 AM 10/22/2012
A former Navy lawyer who was convicted during a court martial in 2007 for mailing secret information about Guantanamo Bay detainees is seeking to get his law license reinstated in Kansas.
Attorneys for Matthew Diaz will argue on Thursday before the Kansas Supreme Court to accept a recommendation from the Office of Judicial Administration to suspend his law license for three years effective 2008. Because of the timeline, Diaz would be reinstated with the Kansas bar.
The disciplinary hearing panel said Diaz warranted "significant discipline" for his actions, which included the act of printing and sending classified information and sending it to an unauthorized person.
Wichita attorney Jack Focht argues that Diaz by virtue of his court martial, discharge from the Navy and prison term had been punished enough.
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Iamgonnagetyou
Monday 22 October 2012 09:11 Report this comment
Yea we need more dishonest lawyers.
Aurora
Monday 22 October 2012 13:47 Report this comment
Nah...we need more whistleblowers.
Iamgonnagetyou
Monday 22 October 2012 18:24 Report this comment
Got enought of those.
GETALIFE674
Tuesday 23 October 2012 01:33 Report this comment
What we need is to clean house of the lawyers we have in this state. Especially the ambulance chasers.