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<blockquote data-quote="Dave70968" data-source="post: 3169835" data-attributes="member: 13624"><p>The way it was told to me, the statistician, <a href="https://statistics.columbian.gwu.edu/fritz-scheuren" target="_blank">Fritz Scheuren</a>, was absolutely brilliant, and ripped the NFA registry to shreds, but wasn't especially good at communicating with laymen, so the jurors had trouble understanding him. Also as told to me, his experience the first time around prepared him for the second round, and the ATF was scared to death of him being able to communicate--on the record, no less--in a way the average person could understand, and of what that would do to their attempts at future prosecutions, so they quietly tucked their tails between their legs and let it go with a trivial charge to get out of the spotlight.</p><p></p><p>As to the latter, it was more than just poor communication, it was also actual mishandling of client money, taking fees not yet earned, charging excessive fees, etc. At least that's what the Oklahoma Supreme Court said in the writeup disbarring him (it was in the Bar Journal, which is available online for those who want to read it; case number <a href="http://www.oscn.net/dockets/GetCaseInformation.aspx?db=appellate&number=SCBD-6333&cmid=118030" target="_blank">SCBD-6333</a>). He also had previous bar discipline and a federal conviction for willful failure to pay taxes for multiple years (noted in the Court's opinion), and the gun charge came up (because it did result in a conviction).</p><p></p><p>In other words, it wasn't a one-off incident. And I liked the guy; he even took me to lunch a few times while I was in law school. But for those who think lawyers are crooks, well, the bar takes that sort of thing very seriously.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dave70968, post: 3169835, member: 13624"] The way it was told to me, the statistician, [URL='https://statistics.columbian.gwu.edu/fritz-scheuren']Fritz Scheuren[/URL], was absolutely brilliant, and ripped the NFA registry to shreds, but wasn't especially good at communicating with laymen, so the jurors had trouble understanding him. Also as told to me, his experience the first time around prepared him for the second round, and the ATF was scared to death of him being able to communicate--on the record, no less--in a way the average person could understand, and of what that would do to their attempts at future prosecutions, so they quietly tucked their tails between their legs and let it go with a trivial charge to get out of the spotlight. As to the latter, it was more than just poor communication, it was also actual mishandling of client money, taking fees not yet earned, charging excessive fees, etc. At least that's what the Oklahoma Supreme Court said in the writeup disbarring him (it was in the Bar Journal, which is available online for those who want to read it; case number [URL='http://www.oscn.net/dockets/GetCaseInformation.aspx?db=appellate&number=SCBD-6333&cmid=118030']SCBD-6333[/URL]). He also had previous bar discipline and a federal conviction for willful failure to pay taxes for multiple years (noted in the Court's opinion), and the gun charge came up (because it did result in a conviction). In other words, it wasn't a one-off incident. And I liked the guy; he even took me to lunch a few times while I was in law school. But for those who think lawyers are crooks, well, the bar takes that sort of thing very seriously. [/QUOTE]
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