Palfrey: I Want a New Judge

A new lawyer would be nice, but now alleged D.C. Madam Deborah Jeane Palfrey wants a new judge and new prosecutors, too. They’re the latest oh-my! motions in her case -- and only slightly less madcap than her civil attorney’s announcement two weeks ago that Palfrey wished to subpoena an ABC News reporter and Sen. Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.), the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, to prove she is victim of political persecution. (Cue the headshaking and sighing.)

Palfrey, in a motion filed Thursday in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, says that Senior Judge Gladys Kessler has shown bias and hostility towards her and her civil attorney, Montgomery Blair Sibley, whom Kessler forbade from sitting next to Palfrey during criminal proceedings. Incredibly, she also accuses Kessler of moving slowly, though Palfrey is on her second court-appointed lawyer -- she said the first, Federal Public Defender A.J. Kramer, was too busy to handle the litigation -- and has saddled the case with more than a dozen motions. Kessler, in a recent hearing, complained of a lack of progress.

In the other motion, Palfrey asks the court to toss Assistant U.S. attorneys Daniel Butler, Catherine Connelly and William Cowden from the case, alleging that they “disclosed privileged settlement communications for a malicious and improper use.” Palfrey notes in the filing that her current court-appointed attorney -- Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe partner Preston Burton, whom she is also trying to shake loose -- refused to bring these matters before the court. Gee.

Comments

[Matt Janovic]

No, no bias detected within this article. None whatsoever, move along. Who exactly else would have leaked the official documents to the Smoking Gun while Ms. Palfrey was still in Germany? Her? How would she have even known she was being investigated and had been charged, and what would she have gained by sending the so-called "incriminating e-mails" to the editor of the Smoking Gun? Your logic is lacking. Granted, she's made some obvious mistakes in her defense, but methinks thou dost protesteth too loudly.

[Billing]

Palfrey list Sounds like the black book of 1918.
That trial of the century was removed clean out of all books.
The list there had 47000 names.
The list here is 46000 phone records.
The listed are not womenizers or machos or ordinary sinners.
They are power brokers, gay, Lutheran Shock and Awe agitators of all wars.
And they are only the cover for the real pimps deep underground.
Deborah Palfrey deserves the First Billing Award for clean governance.
A curse on Justice Charles Darling and Judge Gladys Kessler.

Noel Pemberton-Billing
Trial of the Century