More Courtroom Etiquette

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Excuse me, sir. You're a liar," Dover told Spears.

"I will punch the (expletive) out of you if you call me a liar again," Spears replied.

Dover responded by calling Spears a liar again.

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What happened after the bluff was called

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Excuse me, sir. You're a liar," Dover told Spears.

"I will punch the (expletive) out of you if you call me a liar again," Spears replied.

Dover responded by calling Spears a liar again.

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Calling someone a liar or a thief is something that should only be done when you can prove it is so. Not casually.

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On October 31, 1979, Deputy Attorney General Rem and Eisert agreed to meet with respondent, at his request, for a settlement conference. The Lawyer's Lounge was selected. In addition to addressing insults at Rem, respondent referred to a female attorney, also in the lounge, as "Miss Wrinkles", "Miss Bags" and "old bag", and stated to her: "Shove it up your arse" and "go frick yourself".

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Prior to removing himself from the area, respondent intentionally bumped Pearson with his stomach and then his shoulder, and thereafter advised Pearson that he could take his law firm and "shove it up my arse".

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Under some circumstances it might be difficult to determine precisely the point at which forceful, aggressive trial advocacy crosses the line into the forbidden territory of an ethical violation. But no matter where in the spectrum of courtroom behavior we would draw that line, no matter how indulgent our view of acceptable professional conduct might be, it is inconceivable that the instances of respondent's demeanor that we are called upon to review in these proceedings could ever be countenanced. The record lays bare a shameful display of atrocious deportment calling for substantial discipline. Vincenti, Matter of, 458 A.2d 1268, 92 N.J. 591 (N.J., 1983)

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Where a petition alleged that the plaintiff was an unmarried white lady, and that while in attendance as a guest of the defendant at a circus performance given by the defendant, and while seated in one of the seats provided by the defendant for the defendant's guests at the circus, a horse, which was going through a dancing performance immediately in front of where the plaintiff was sitting, was by the defendant's servant, who was riding upon the horse, caused to back towards the plaintiff, and while in this situation the horse evacuated his bowels into her lap, that this occurred in full view of many people, some of whom were the defendant's employees, and all of whom laughed at the occurrence, that as a result thereof the plaintiff was caused much embarrassment, mortification, and mental pain and suffering, to her damage in a certain amount, that the damage alleged was due entirely to the defendant's negligence and without any fault on the part of the plaintiff, the petition set out a cause of action and was good as against a general demurrer. Christy Bros. Circus v. Turnage, 144 S.E. 680, 38 Ga.App. 581 (Ga. App., 1928)

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