What follows is an email I sent today to Norm Pattis, with links to pertinent posts on various blogs added:<\/p>\n
Norm,<\/p>\n
I am completely disgusted by Greenfield’s hit piece<\/a> on you. The guy’s a raging hypocrite. Look at his very first blog post<\/a> at Simple Justice. It clearly had in mind as an audience and was directed to potential clients.<\/p>\n I may be completely wrong about this, but it seemed your falling out<\/a> with the part of the blawgosphere led by Greenfield coincided with your limited<\/a> defense<\/a> of me when most of the rest of the blawgosphere mocked me over my position<\/a> on the topic of justice, and with Greenfield’s ridiculous banning <\/a>of me from his stupid blog. (I’ve never quite understood the vehemence of the reaction to my posts<\/a> on justice<\/a> relative to the role of the criminal defense attorney. Locking a person up in a cage like an animal is presumptively unjust<\/a>. That’s what a criminal defense attorney fights against. And locking a person up in a cage like an animal is even more unjust<\/a> if that person is innocent.)<\/p>\n My understanding of your posts about Rakofsky is reflected in the email above [see below], in the comment I tried to post on your blog. You instinctively<\/a> took the part of, and gave the benefit of the doubt to<\/a>, an individual who was being attacked en masse by those in the blawgosphere possessed of a group mentality<\/a>. His version of events in his complaint, if true, made the whole thing pretty interesting. Subsequently, it turned out that his version of events doesn’t really appear to match up with reality, and your second post<\/a> acknowledged that. But those spouting off about Rakofsky earlier had no more information than you did.<\/p>\n My opinion of Gerry<\/a> Spence<\/a> just went up a notch, in light of his willingness to write an intro to your book despite the critical words you’ve had to say about him and the TLC in the past.<\/p>\n I wish I had the opportunity to learn the law from someone like you. My independent spirit, along with fate’s determination that I stumbled in law school upon the issue that obsessed me for several years out<\/a> of law school, have left me in a position where I’ve had to try to figure things out on my own. It’s not easy. I do have a mentor I’m able to run things by, but I wished I could have really learned from a master.<\/p>\n I look forward<\/a> to reading your book<\/a>.<\/p>\n John A. Kindley<\/p>\n *****<\/p>\n What follows is the earlier email I sent (before I got this news<\/a>) to Norm referenced in the email above:<\/p>\n Norm,<\/p>\n