Friends of Richard Fine have described the fourteen contempt charges (reduced to three categories for trial) as "trumped up" but they fail to appreciate that trumped up charges are typically followed by a kangaroo court verdict of "guilty." But Judge Yaffe found Fine "not guilty" on all fourteen counts, indicating that he did not vent personal spleen. Jaffe found Fine guilty of contempt only for Fine's willful refusal to meet his obligations in the debtor examination, and for his practicing law without a license. Whether or not one agrees with Judge Woehrle, Fine's quoting Mayberry as though it were on all fours with his own case is mere propaganda, not law, let alone "settled law" as Fine called it.
The two most useful documents for me were:
Case 2:09-cv-01914-JFW-CW Document 15 Filed 05/01/2009 RESPONSE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT OF LOS ANGELES TO PETITION FOR WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS
Case 2:09-cv-01914-JFW-CW Document 26 Filed 06/12/2009 REPORT AND RECOMMENDATION OF UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE
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Richard Fine is a decidedly flawed hero, but like you I like him, and frankly I feel sorry for him. Nonetheless, the missing piece of your story, once put back in place where it belongs, makes most of the charges of gross abuse and distortion of the legal system diminish, if not disappear. If you are going to beard the Lion in his own den, you do not begin by laying your throat open to be devoured by it.
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