Welcome to the web page about the Florida Bar's persecution of me, Tampa attorney Mark A. Adams. I made the mistake of moving to disqualify Judge Crockett Farnell based on evidence that the clients of Timothy W. Weber, Esquire of the St. Petersburg law firm of Battaglia, Ross, Dicus & Wein, P.A., had repeatedly boasted that Weber was connected and could improperly influence Judge Farnell and based on the fact that Judge Farnell had repeatedly ignored the law to rule in the favor of Weber's clients.
The Florida Bar has called me "a danger to the public" claiming that I am incompetent and that I attempt to mislead the court. Yet, in its petition to suspend me, the Florida Bar misleadingly claims that there is a basis to suspend me when there is no legal basis for such action, and the Bar also completely fails to meet the pleading requirements for an emergency suspension of an attorney. As a result, one has to wonder who is actually trying to mislead the Florida Supreme Court, whether the Florida Bar attorney who is leading this persecution is competent, and why the Florida Bar would pursue a baseless action against me while failing to investigate complaints against Weber and the Battaglia firm even though the FDLE has filed at least one complaint with the Florida Bar against them.
Also, please note that my complaint to the FDLE shows that Judge Farnell removed Weber from his position as prosecutor of the contempt charge bought against me after my attorney pointed out that Florida Rule of Professional Conduct 4-3.7 prohibits Weber from serving as both a witness and a prosecutor in the same action. Therefore, Farnell should not have appointed Weber, and Weber should not have accepted the appointment. However, even though my complaint to the FDLE showed that Weber had committed two felonies and had violated Rule 4-3.7, the Bar did not pursue any investigation of Weber. See the FLDE’s letter to the Bar at: http://www.msnusers.com/FloridaBarvAdams/Documents/FDLELTFlaBar62504.pdf
For more information about the Florida Bar’s latest action, see my Response to the Florida Bar’s Petition for Interim Suspension at:
http://www.msnusers.com/FloridaBarvAdams/Documents/PetitionforInterimSuspensionResponse.pdf The Florida Bar’s Petition for Interim Suspension at:
http://www.msnusers.com/FloridaBarvAdams/Documents/PetitionforInterimSuspensionbyFlaBar.pdf The Florida Bar’s Response to my Response to the Bar’s Petition for Interim Suspension in which the Bar fails to even try to argue that there was any basis for its petition for my suspension at: http://www.msnusers.com/FloridaBarvAdams/Documents/BarReplytoResponsetoPetitionforSuspension.pdf
The Bar wasn’t concerned about investigating the FDLE’s complaint about Weber, but it did want to know who I had been talking to in the press about this judicial corruption scandal. See the Bar’s letter to me at: http://www.msnusers.com/FloridaBarvAdams/Documents/Fla%20Bar%20re%20Reporters%20Info.pdf
The Florida Bar started pursuing me after Judge Crockett Farnell entered a judgment and an order granting sanctions against me which was prepared by Mr. Weber over 9 months after Judge Farnell had approved my withdrawal as attorney for the plaintiffs without any reservation of jurisdiction over me and without Mr. Weber taking any action for Judge Farnell to reacquire jurisdiction over me. In addition to being entered without any jurisdiction and without due process, the sanctions were contrary to the law and the facts.
I moved to vacate these baseless sanctions after I learned that Judge Farnell had entered them, and after I had set my motion to vacate these sanctions and motion for a protective order seeking to stay discovery in aid of execution of these sanctions for a hearing, Mr. Weber presented a misleading document to Judge Farnell and asked him to charge me with indirect criminal contempt. Judge Farnell once again did Mr. Weber’s bidding even though there was no legal basis to do so, and he issued an order to show cause charging me with indirect criminal contempt on October 1, 2003.
Although Judge Crockett Farnell had denied several of my motions to disqualify him, Judge Farnell suddenly disqualified himself from presiding over the criminal contempt proceeding against me when he was informed that a TV news reporter wanted to cover my contempt trial. Eventually, the criminal contempt charges against me were dismissed on November 28, 2005 by Judge Robert Beach. However, in the Florida Bar's action against me, Judge Gregory Holder found that there was clear and convincing evidence that I was guilty of all of the charges that the Bar brought against me even the ones based on the contempt charges which the Bar's only witness testified had been dismissed.
Following is my memorandum of law and its exhibits which show that the contempt charges which Judge Crockett Farnell brought against me were completely baseless:
http://www.msnusers.com/FloridaBarvAdams/Documents/MemoreMotiontoReconsiderOrdertoShowCause.pdf
Exhibit A – the Order to Show Cause issued by Judge Crockett Farnell
http://www.msnusers.com/FloridaBarvAdams/Documents/OrdertoShowCause.pdf
Exhibit B – Timothy W. Weber’s misleading "Affidavit"
http://www.msnusers.com/FloridaBarvAdams/Documents/WeberAffidavit.pdf
Exhibit C – the Judgment for Expenses on Motions to Compel
http://www.msnusers.com/FloridaBarvAdams/Documents/JudgmentforExpenses.pdf
See the Order dismissing the contempt charge brought against me by Weber and Farnell at:
http://www.msnusers.com/FloridaBarvAdams/Documents/Order%20Dismissing%20Contempt%20Charge.pdf
For links to more information on my fight for justice see the links page or go to:
http://www.msnusers.com/FloridaBarvAdams/moreinformationpage1.msnw
