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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJoe Arpaio asks public to pay legal fees, laments: I have to pay for my own lawyers!
Aricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio is asking supporters to pay for the cost of his ongoing legal battles, the Los Angeles Times reported.
In some instances I have to personally pay for attorneys to represent me in these cases, Arpaio said in an email to fans late last week. I do not have the personal wealth or the wherewithal to keep up with the costly demands of paying for attorneys to defend me.
Arpaio made his appeal a day before filing for the removal of District Judge G. Murray Snow from contempt of court proceedings against him.
The sheriffs attorneys argued that Snow is incapable of being impartial in the case because of a situation created by Arpaios own representation; Arpaio revealed last month that a former attorney hired a private detective to investigate Snows wife.
No reasonable person with knowledge of the facts can deny that Judge Snow is now investigating and presiding over issues involving his own family, Arpaios current lawyer, Mel McDonald, argued.
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/05/joe-arpaio-asks-public-to-pay-legal-fees-laments-i-have-to-pay-for-my-own-lawyers/
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Joe Arpaio asks public to pay legal fees, laments: I have to pay for my own lawyers! (Original Post)
Katashi_itto
May 2015
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hobbit709
(41,694 posts)1. ...
dballance
(5,756 posts)2. Fuck YOU!!!!!!!!!!!! /nt
Gothmog
(145,481 posts)3. Arpaio is an idiot and is paying the price for his stupidity
shraby
(21,946 posts)4. Shouldn't he thought of that before pulling the shenanigans he does? Most
adults weigh the consequences of their actions first and decide if the cost outweighs the benefit. Apparently he doesn't have much sense.
Jester Messiah
(4,711 posts)5. Heh, too bad Joe.
Too bad for you that Bigot Pizza already secured the cash windfall and now GoFundMe has twigged to the whole racket and tightened the rules. Do not pass Go, do not collect $200, go directly to jail.