The Mississippi Supreme Court suspended Former Hinds County Attorney Martin Perkins from the practice of law for six months on September 1.*
The Court said a client retained the attorney and paid a $5,000 fee. Mr. Perkins did not respond to the client nor perform much work on the case. The lawyer did not properly respond to the Bar complaint but said he had "depression" issues. The Bar issued a private reprimand to Mr. Perkins in 2014 and suspended him for 30 days in 2019.
* The Hinds County Attorney prosecutes misdemeanor offenses and is the same position as the County Prosecutor in other counties such as Madison and Rankin.
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Any way they can also suspend and/or remove, like out of the building, David Archie? All my friends were wondering about this as it would save time and money.
Apparently he wasn't too depressed to accept the five-thousand. Although Jackson is a wild, wild town, and this guy is close, he's not exactly the Wild Kingdom guy.
@3:15 wellllllll
the supes did vote today to rescind the motion to elect Archie as vice pres & pres elect and also to remove him from the positions. Passed on a 3-2 vote
this martin clown needs to be disbarred, not just suspended for 6 months.
this comment is coming from a 33 years member of the bar.
"Any way they can also suspend and/or remove, like out of the building, David Archie?"
I'm sure they could, but David "L" Archie increases the local news ratings.
(And that translates into more ad revenue).
I've just finished researching my Americans With Disabilities Act manual. I don't find that a self-diagnosis of depression is covered in the allowances and accommodations that would allow a professional to steal from a client, and skate. While depression is mentioned in my manual, I don't find it among those medical conditions that would allow abrogation of responsibility to perform a service.
I would suggest that either of the following be used as a first defense:
1) I just never got around to preparing a proper path of representation for this client, your honor. Therefore, and herewith, I throw myself upon the mercy of this court. Please be gentle.
2) I had full intentions of returning the $5000 in the very near future, your honor, and have even considered adding the payment of interest. I want my clients to feel I've made them whole when they look back on their experience with me.
3) I would like for the court to know I'm not sure what this is all about. Can you rephrase the question, your honor?
He’s not the only one, He just got caught- You know who you Are!!!!! 👮♀️
He’s not the only one, He just got caught- You know who you Are!!!!! 👮♀️
Lawyers Always Take Clients Money and Dont Do Nothing For Their Cases, We All Know The One Who Representing You is The Real Criminal to Law. Martin Just Didn’t Show Up,But Got His Pay Up Front for His Crime.Nothing Unusual. This is Called Our Justice System. But If the shoe was on the other foot, This would be a felony charge and maybe jail time,but since he didn’t know no better and he’s a Lawyer,because he’s “ Distressed” he only got Disbarred for 6 months🤔🤔🤔. There is No Justice for the People unless You Connected.
No Justice.
He should have been practicing in Madison county when Michael Guest was running for Congress in 2018 he allowed Jeffery Kinght to defend people in Madison county an Ranking county courts while he was out on a 100.000 dollar bond for his own drug charges John Emfinger an Steve Ratcliff were the judges that allowed it now Me.Guest is in Congress John Emfinger is now on the court of appeals an Steve Ratcliff is still on the bench in both county's an also sits on the complaint tribanal that shows they can do what they want the Feds should start looking in to all this good ol boy stuff going on
Kevin Camp is the best at it
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