Well… it had to happen sometime – and now it finally has.
Juan Martinez, the pedo-huggers “hero”… and one of the most corrupt “win-at-all-costs” prosecutors ever to disgrace a courtroom… has been officially disbarred.
He’s managed to make a living from lying, witness tampering, evidence tampering & wrongful convictions for many years — but all that stops, right here, right now.
In the big scheme of things, this is awesome news.
Juan Martinez — R.I.P.
You’ll need a proxy/VPN to access the AZFamily.com website if you’re outside the US, so the full article has been reproduced below.
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From AZFamily.com, July 17th:
Jodi Arias’ prosecutor Juan Martinez has been disbarred
PHOENIX (3TV/CBS5) — The lawyer best known for prosecuting in the Jodi Arias trial has been disbarred. Juan Martinez was fired from the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office earlier this year amid a number of misconduct allegations.
Martinez was accused of leaking a juror’s name in the Arias case to a blogger with whom he was in a sexual relationship, and then lying to investigators about it. Martinez is also accused of staring at a court reporter during the Arias trial and making comments about her appearance that made her feel uncomfortable.
“In my opinion this is long overdue. His misconduct goes back years,” said Karen Clark, Arias’ legal ethics attorney.
A law firm also filed an ethics complaint, claiming Martinez wrote a book about the Arias case while the trial was still going on. They also say he wrote the book on County time and at taxpayers’ expense. Martinez was reprimanded by the county prosecutor’s office in 2018 for inappropriate and unprofessional conduct toward female law clerks.
“The Jody Arias case was a very high profile trial and the allegations in these bar charges involved things that were going on behind the scenes that the public did not know about,” said Clark.
“Wouldn’t be surprised to see claims filed by people in prison saying their cases were barred by his misconduct,” said lawyer Dan Barr.
The State Bar of Arizona released the following statement:
“The Presiding Disciplinary Judge of the Arizona Supreme Court has issued an order accepting a consent to disbarment for Juan Martinez.
Martinez filed a consent to disbarment in the pending discipline case of In re: Juan Martinez, PDJ 2019-9008. The Presiding Disciplinary Judge accepted his consent and issued an order disbarring him, effective immediately. This judgment of disbarment effectively ends the pending discipline case against him.
Juan Martinez filed the consent to disbarment pursuant to Rule 57, Ariz. R. Sup. Ct., which allows him to consent to disbarment without making any admission of misconduct; rather he confirms that he no longer wants to defend against the charges.
The State Bar believes this is a just outcome and appreciates the time and effort of both the State Bar lawyers and staff who litigated this case, particularly Senior Bar Counsel Craig Henley and Staff Bar Counsel Stacy Shuman, as well as the witnesses involved in the underlying charge.”
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UPDATE: The JAA Appellate Fund total currently stands at $101,432.90 — so let’s be sure to keep the momentum rolling so the fund total can push on towards the ultimate target of $250,000. That in turn will help towards covering all the legal fees associated with appealing Jodi’s wrongful conviction.
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Remember… each day that passes takes us one day closer to Jodi’s release date.
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SJ
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