Alina Habba’s antics make her a candidate for Bar Assoc. disciplinary action: attorney
Donald Trump lawyer Alina Habba's "flagrant disregard" for courtroom rules could pave the way for Judge Lewis Kaplan to refer her to the State Bar for a hearing and investigation.
According to former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance, the E. Jean Carroll judge would be completely within his rights to ask the New York State Bar Association to review the former president's attorney's conduct after Kaplan repeatedly was forced to admonish her during the two-week trial.
On her Substack platform, Vance suggested that Habba's lack of legal skills and knowledge about the rules of evidence aren't the issue so much as the chaos she repeatedly created in the civil trial she ultimately lost which cost her client $83.3 million on Friday.
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According to Vance, who called Habba's outbursts "disgraceful," she, "...would not be surprised to see the Judge refer her to the Bar Association for disciplinary action."
Clarifying her reasoning, she explained, "It wasn’t her novice mistakes that were the issue, although they caused a lot of comments. It was her flagrant disregard of the Judge’s decisions about arguments that could and could not be made to the jury. She trod on those rulings despite repeated warnings from the Judge."
Vance added the proper procedure when a lawyer feels the judge erred is to take it up later in an appeal.
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In the case of the combative Habba, the Trump attorney's "repeated strategy was to fight with the Judge. Tell her she couldn’t do something, and she jumped right in anyhow, repeatedly insinuating that Trump didn’t assault Carroll," the former prosecutor wrote.
"The Judge would be well within his rights to let the Bar sort her out. Her lack of respect for the rule of law, which mirrors her client’s, is unacceptable in a lawyer," Vance concluded.
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