Part II, Chapter 2:
Lane Powell v. Carol and Mark DeCoursey

Case No. 11-2-34596-3 SEA

Note: Some Exhibits have been redacted in accordance with a settlement agreement
with 
the contractor who ruined our house.  (2) Lane Powell’s attorneys allege they have placed attorney-client conficences into the public record.  Without affirming or denying the content of the allegations, we have redacted the alleged confidences.

The Truth, the Lie, and the Judge

“Our adversary system for the resolution of disputes rests on the unshakable foundations that truth is the object of the system’s process with is designed for the purpose of dispensing justice … Even the slightest accommodation of deceit or lack of candor in any material respect quickly erodes the validity of the process.” --United States v. Shaffer Equipment Co., 11 F3d. 450, 457 (4^th Cir. 1993), as quoted by Judge Elaine E. Bucklo (Northern District of Illinois) in “From the Bench.  When Lawyers Lie” in the Winter 2007 edition of Litigation.

“The Truth, the Lie, and the Judge” is presented in the following pages.  An early edition of this matrix with 12 rows of facts was filed in Judge Eadie’s court on April 10, 2013, Dkt. 392.

Conclusion

The California Supreme Court Justices referred to the words of Justice Felix Frankfurter:

“It is a fair characterization of the lawyer’s responsibility in our society that he [or she] stands ‘as a shield’ ... in defense of right and to ward off wrong.  From a profession charged with such responsibilities there must be exacted those qualities of truth-speaking, of a high sense of honor, of granite discretion, of the strictest observance of fiduciary responsibility, that have, throughout the centuries, been compendiously described as ‘moral character.’” (Exhibit January 17, 2014, Pg. 30.)