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After Alabama senatorial candidate Roy “Fruit Salad” Moore found himself on the wrong end of a Subway sandwich from multiple tales of unwanted advances toward teenaged girls — including one woman who says she was 14 at the time he initiated sexual contact — he turned to the one man who could clear his name.
And after that guy said no, he turned to Trent Garmon.
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Garmon, the graduate of an unaccredited law school who was once suspended from practice for harassing the parents of a dead child — a suspension that ROY MOORE UPHELD AS A JUDGE — has been soaking up his 15 minutes of ignominy with nonsensical and racist turns on both CNN and MSNBC, ostensibly to “help” his client. But his masterpiece came when he penned what is, arguably, the world’s most incoherent demand letter, asking AL.com to retract its coverage connecting Moore to young and underaged girls.
Now that the mockery of that trainwreck of a letter has started to die down, AL.com has put out their reply and it’s a very professional, very courteous explanation that Garmon is completely full of s**t.
Go ahead and read the whole thing, it’s a pretty damning takedown of Garmon’s “theory” of the case. But the real knife twist in this letter is the concluding litigation hold language. As Wonkette described this passage, “[f]or some reason, they aren’t 100 percent confident that you’re clear on how discovery works….”:
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We are hereby putting your clients on notice of their duty to preserve and maintain all materials, documents, writings, recordings, statements, notes, letters, journals, diaries, calendars, emails, photographs, videos, computers, cell phones, electronic data, and other information that is or could remotely be relevant in any manner to any of the claims that you have made. These include, but are not limited to, all materials and information related to Mr. Moore’s history of romantic relationships or physical encounters (whether consensual or not); your clients’ fundraising, compensation, and finances; and Mr. Moore’s speaking engagements, travel arrangements, and other expenses. As you know, failure to preserve any such materials may expose your client to sanctions.
It’s almost like the guy kicked off the Alabama Supreme Court twice and his unaccredited law grad attorney didn’t think through the discovery implications of tossing around legal threats willy-nilly.
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