brady campaign lawyers withdraw from gun lawsuit

wolfwood · Apr 18, 2015

This is just funny enjoy this guys
http://www.jsonline.com/watchdog/wa...-gun-store-lawsuit-b99481327z1-299762131.html

A long-awaited trial pitting two wounded Milwaukee police officers against the gun store that sold the weapon used to shoot them has been delayed after attorneys from a national gun control group posted information online that the judge had ruled inadmissible.

The lawsuit, filed in 2010 against Badger Guns and its predecessor, Badger Outdoors, by officer Bryan Norberg and former officer Graham Kunisch, is the first of its kind nationwide to make it this far. It had been scheduled to begin Monday and last three weeks.

The case, however, is not dead. It has been transferred to another Milwaukee County judge and it is due next in court in September. Separately, two other wounded Milwaukee police officers have sued the gun-selling operations. Their case is set to go to trial later.

Milwaukee County Judge Jeffrey Conen on Monday allowed attorneys Jonathan Lowy and Alla Lefkowitz of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence to withdraw from the case. They were representing Norberg and Kunisch along with local attorney Patrick Dunphy.

Conen ordered Brady to pay $800 to Milwaukee County, the cost of paying 100 jurors who were called for jury selection for half a day. It was an extra large pool, more than double what judges typically summon.

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In court Monday, Conen admonished Lowy for the conduct and ordered the lawyers not to discuss any more of the materials in public "contrary to the laws of ethics or the rules of ethics in the state of Wisconsin."
"I don't how things are practiced in Washington, D.C., or New York or anywhere else, but out here in the Midwest we have certain rules. ... This is something that cannot be done, and it cannot be done through surrogates," Conen said, according to the transcript. "The whole idea is to have a fair trial for absolutely everyone."

Doctor_M · May 15, 2015

I know this isn't directly related to the OP, but I was looking for the most recent open thread on the Brady Campaign since I didn't think this deserved another thread...

I just came across this advert from Brady and went WTF??? Are they trying to say, that if you are getting raped, just deal with it, because killing someone is irreversible? I hope I'm reading this wrong. I know that these folks are pretty despicable, but I CANNOT for the life of me understand how anyone would think that message is a good idea.

Please tell me I am reading this wrong.

womenshouldendurerape_bradycampaigntopreventgunviolence.jpg

rseymorejr · May 15, 2015

Doctor_M said:
I know this isn't directly related to the OP, but I was looking for the most recent open thread on the Brady Campaign since I didn't think this deserved another thread...

I just came across this advert from Brady and went WTF??? Are they trying to say, that if you are getting raped, just deal with it, because killing someone is irreversible? I hope I'm reading this wrong. I know that these folks are pretty despicable, but I CANNOT for the life of me understand how anyone would think that message is a good idea.

Please tell me I am reading this wrong.

I guess they don't understand the difference between murder and justifiable homicide.

I bet it hurts to be that ignorant.

Doctor_M · May 15, 2015

I wonder if the NOW would agree with this message... I know that liberal groups never attack other liberal groups... but good freakin' grief.

Inigoes · May 15, 2015

Another frivilous lawsuit

The perps who committed the crime are serving their sentences:

Burton (aka shooter) was sentenced to 80 years in prison and Collins (aka straw purchaser) received two years in federal prison on a straw-buying conviction.

redeemed.man · May 15, 2015

Doctor_M said:
I know this isn't directly related to the OP, but I was looking for the most recent open thread on the Brady Campaign since I didn't think this deserved another thread...

I just came across this advert from Brady and went WTF??? Are they trying to say, that if you are getting raped, just deal with it, because killing someone is irreversible? I hope I'm reading this wrong. I know that these folks are pretty despicable, but I CANNOT for the life of me understand how anyone would think that message is a good idea.

Please tell me I am reading this wrong.

That has to be fake.... WTF!

BradMacc82 · May 15, 2015

boundlessdyad said:
That has to be fake.... WTF!

It isn't.

They are a special kind of stupid...

FrankZ · May 15, 2015

boundlessdyad said:
That has to be fake.... WTF!

BradMacc82 said:
It isn't.

They are a special kind of stupid...

http://www.snopes.com/politics/guns/bradyad.asp

It is a fake ad.

MDFF2008 · May 15, 2015

BradMacc82 said:
It isn't.

They are a special kind of stupid...

I'm pretty sure I read that image was faked.

BradMacc82 · May 15, 2015

FrankZ said:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/guns/bradyad.asp

It is a fake ad.

gprimr1 said:
I'm pretty sure I read that image was faked.

Well, color me surprised then.

It's the type of flawed logic I'd have expected to hear.

press1280 · May 15, 2015

The Brady lawyers are first class clowns. Sadly, our appeals courts actually take their testimony as gospel.

Doctor_M · May 15, 2015

While I'm always glad to see the enemy shoot themselves in the foot, I'm glad that this is a fake... It gave me a lump in the pit of my stomach it was so disgusting. Thanks for clarifying FrankZ and gprimr1.

44man · May 15, 2015

Doctor_M said:
I know this isn't directly related to the OP, but I was looking for the most recent open thread on the Brady Campaign since I didn't think this deserved another thread...

I just came across this advert from Brady and went WTF??? Are they trying to say, that if you are getting raped, just deal with it, because killing someone is irreversible? I hope I'm reading this wrong. I know that these folks are pretty despicable, but I CANNOT for the life of me understand how anyone would think that message is a good idea.

Please tell me I am reading this wrong.

I am fairly certain that's the dumbest thing I have ever read.

Bob A · May 15, 2015

Even if the ad is a fake - and it must be, because the Bradys say so - it's an interesting piece of political theater. Food for thought, such as it is, and the fact that a lot of people accepted it as coming from the Brady campaign is interesting.

Threeband · May 15, 2015

Maybe snopes is doing damage control for the Bradys.

FrankZ · May 16, 2015

I think a lot of people would love to see something like this come out of the Brady's so they are willing to believe it based on that.

ZeroCool · May 16, 2015

About the ad in question - I'm like 95% sure that the Ad was made by internet trolls from Anonymous sites like Reddit or 4Chan.

What happened is that they started spreading it around as a joke and then it ended up being posted on the official Brady Campaign Facebook page. The, uh, "geniuses" over there didn't quite realize what it was saying for quite some time until a bunch of people started complaining about it on comments and they took it down.

I only know this because I've seen screen captures of it posted on their site by those internet trolls who were super proud of duping the Brady Campaign.

Like I said, I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure that was the series of events. They've made a bunch of similar troll ads like that but most of the other ones are too obvious to trick them again.

Kind of funny who our allies are these days... :party29:

Maestro Pistolero · May 16, 2015

It may be a fake ad, but the underlying attitude has a ring of truth according to their perverse view. If they didn't actually believe that a rape was preferable to self-defense then they wouldn't discourage women from defending themselves against it as they do.

DC-W · May 16, 2015

Maestro Pistolero said:
It may be a fake ad, but the underlying attitude has a ring of truth according to their perverse view. If they didn't actually believe that a rape was preferable to self-defense then they wouldn't discourage women from defending themselves against it as they do.

Spot on. They'd rather people use a whistle instead of something that goes bang.

FrankZ · May 16, 2015

DC-W said:
Spot on. They'd rather people use a whistle instead of something that goes bang.

I can never keep straight which one says whistle versus peeing on the rapist versus vomiting on the rapist.

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