by Mary Kay Culp, KFL Executive Director
Today's KFL blog (read it HERE)
examines how the states' legal ethics head, Stan Hazlett, went after
one attorney's license, allegedly breaking the rules and repeatedly
lying! He now faces his own set of ethics charges. Interestingly, that
attorney also had a connection to abortion. Because of his actions it
was revealed in a story in the Topeka Capitol Journal that sexual abuse
was going on at the women's correction center in Topeka, with abortion
being used to hide it!
This strongly echoes the ongoing saga of former attorney General, Phill Kline who Hazlett is also going after.
Three weeks ago, anti- Kline "tweets" were going on the internet against
Phill Kline, at his ethics hearing in the Supreme Court. After
complaining about the source of the derisive comments--an appellate
court law clerk (who helps the justices write their rulings)--Kline's
attorney issued a letter to Hazlett. The letter is HERE. Many substantive charges are made, and Hazlett is asked to release more materials.
Note: Donate to Kline's defense at https://www.lifeissues.org/amistad/donate/index.html
The question remains why Hazlett steadfastly dogged Kline after two
investigative bodies and a Wichita judge supported his actions.
Is it because of the fact that Hazlett works for the Kansas Supreme
Court, whose member, Justice Carol Beier, has a recognized dislike of
Mr. Kline? That assertion is not wholly ours. A December 2008 Supreme
Court ruling regarding Kline found he did nothing wrong and yet Beier,
who wrote the opinion, devoted 18 pages to denigrate him. The entire
ruling written by Beier was so out of the ordinary, that the chief
justice at the time, Kay McFarland said this, as part of her separate
comments:
" …It appears to me that the majority invokes our extraordinary inherent power to sanction simply to provide a platform from which it can denigrate Kline for actions that it cannot find to have been in violation of any law and to heap scorn upon him for his attitude and behavior that does not rise to the level of contempt. This is the very antithesis of "restraint and discretion" and is not an appropriate exercise of our inherent power.”
Adding:
“I believe it is inappropriate to set forth, as if to threaten [Kline] with, the various penalties that could be imposed if some past or future hypothetical misconduct should "come to light" at a later date….This vague statement seems to anticipate and encompass the discovery of additional past or future misconduct.”
It is difficult not to wonder if there was some tipoff to Beier or
her staff (especially as more "bad tweets"have been uncovered) about a
CD with work product from then-former KS AG Kline's staff that
supposedly appeared "mysteriously" on the desks of abortion attorneys
just weeks earlier and that it supposedly contained damning
information. It didn't although they have tried during Kline's ethics
allegations journey to make something of it. The origin of the CD, and
its transfer to abortion attorneys has never been determined, but
certainly needs to be.
There are other issues related to Kansas corruption that we are working
on because they too demand further exploration and action, and we will
be reporting on them soon--especially the destruction of evidence
related to the Planned Parenthood charges that have all now been dropped
by Johnson County DA Steve Howe.
Again, read the KFL blog article (here)
about another Kansas attorney who Hazlett pursued who is fighting back
allegedly with facts that proved Hazlett is not above lying, and note
the similarities to how Hazlett has treated and continues to treat Phill
Kline! Also, again, please read the great letter Kline's attorney
Condit has written to Hazlett HERE.