>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?
>
>
>-------------------------------------------
>
>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
>
>--------------------------------
>
>That good enough for you? <g>

I'll give you that one. My lawyer is still better than your lawyer <g>.