Chris,

Mind if I jump in here..

>>>>>>>>>In fact, at least some of the counties asked the courts (the FL Supreme Court, if I remember right) to give them a set of rules to follow in counting the ballots, and the courts said, in essence, "that's your problem.">
>>>Come on John, you know what happens when you assume < g >. I have yet to see anything written in Florida that deals with hanging chads or dimples. Of course, it would be fine with me if we used Texas's rules. Do you think W. will have a problem with that?>
>>
>>No, he wouldn't have a problem, if that was what the rules were prior to the election. Speaking of the chads, what about the fact that the Florida Supreme court made their ruling based on the lie from the lawyer in Illinois? That case should be revisited and the lawyer disbarred.
>
>Yeah, right. I am not familiar with the lie from the Illinois lawyer. Can you cite a source?


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November 28, 2000

URGENT!

The Honorable N. Sanders Sauls
Circuit Court Judge
Leon County Courthouse
301 S. Monroe Street
Room 330-A
Tallahassee, Florida 32301-1803

Re: Patently False Representations in Your Courtroom by David Boies

Dear Judge Sauls:

Transmitted under cover of this letter are two other letters sent to Mr.
Boies, who is presently appearing before you. These letters ask him correct
a series of falsehoods made both to the Florida Supreme Court and now to you.

As you know, you have the option or discretion to address possible
ethical breaches by lawyers who appear before you.

I have no option. I am duty-bound by the Rules Regulating The Florida Bar to
apprise you of the information contained in these two attached letters. It
would be unethical for me, under our Rules, not to.

If you want me to come to your courtroom immediately to apprise you of the
details of Mr. Boies' conduct, I shall do so upon a moment's notice.

Best, Jack Thompson

Copies via faxes: Florida Supreme Court
David Boies
Media

[The below was transmitted to Judge Sauls, along with the one yesterday]

November 28, 2000

David Boies, Attorney
Boies, Schiller, and Flexner
5301 Wisconsin Avenue N.W.
Washington, D.C. Via fax to 202-237-6131 and via e-mail to dboies@bsfllp.com

Re: Your Newest Courtroom Misrepresentation, This One to Judge Sauls

Dear Mr. Boies:

There you go again. It has now been reported on Fox News by
highly-regarded journalist Brit Hume, that yesterday you told Leon County
Circuit Court Judge N. Sanders Sauls, who is presiding over the contest suit,
that the Palm Beach County Judge violated the Florida Supreme Court's ruling
when he prohibited the Palm Beach canvassing board from hand recounting
dimpled chads.

Just the opposite, as you know, is the case. The Judge ruled that the
canvassing board could count dimpled chads, and that they should do so in a
reasonable way applying their own rules That is why the Palm Beach
canvassing board used the following standard: if an individual ballot
displayed a number of dimpled chads, including one for his/her presidential
selection, then this was evidence of that voter's propensity to wield the
stylus in that fashion. But if only the presidential chad was dimpled on an
otherwise nicely-punched ballot for the other candidates, then that chad
would not be counted for either candidate.

So, look what you have now done: You have misrepresented to the Florida
Supreme Court, with both a false affidavit and a false characterizing of a
key case, that the Illinois Supreme Court ordered the counting of dimpled
chads. You were caught in this falsehood by the Chicago Tribune last
Thursday.

Then you have taken that Florida Supreme Court ruling, obtained through
falsehoods, to the Judge before whom you are now appearing and said yesterday
that the Palm Beach Judge is disobeying that Florida Supreme Court ruling,
which he is not!

You have thus unethically piggybacked two falsehoods to enhance your
client's litigation fortunes. What is next? That the peaceful protesters in
Miami-Dade last Wednesday fired shots?

Mr. Boies, I went to Vanderbilt Law School with your client, Al Gore. Al
dropped out before he took our mandatory third-year class entitled "Legal
Ethics," which then was not an oxymoron. Al's non-attendance is maybe an
excuse for his antics in the past three weeks.

But you have none. Either correct both your patently false affidavit and
patently false argument to the Florida Supreme Court AND your patently false
statement to Judge Sauls by five o'clock p.m. today, or I shall proceed.

GOVERN YOURSELF ACCORDINGLY.


Best, Jack Thompson


Copies via faxes: Florida Supreme Court
Leon County Circuit Court Judge N. Sanders Sauls
Media

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That good enough for you? <g>