Hello everyone and welcome to this Ethics Alert which will discuss the recent Florida Supreme Court Order disbarring a lawyer for making disparaging statements and accusations regarding the judiciary and accusing judges of witchcraft. The lawyer was also recently arrested for the misconduct. The case is The Florida Bar v. Edward Juan Lynum, Case No.: SC20-746 and The Florida Bar Complaint, Report of Referee, and January 21, 2021 Florida Supreme Court Order can be found here: https://www.floridabar.org/public/acap/disc-docs/?icn=202030020&member=18484
According to the lengthy and detailed Report of Referee dated October 30, 2020, the lawyer described himself in online posts as the victim of a conspiracy in which judges and political figures were conspiring to kill him and destroy his life due to their bigotry and worship of satanic forces.
The referee’s report states that, in a July 2019 Facebook post, the lawyer stated that the first judge who presided in his divorce “fabricates evidence” and is “a dirty stain in our clean SUMTER COUNTY.” The lawyer also said on his blog that the judge has a reputation as “a judge who fabricates evidence and fabricates the evidence in red font, so it screams pagan witchcraft. Her decision to fabricate evidence in red-font screams, ‘I am Satan’ in white people’s words.’”
The report states that lawyer also called the first judge “a dumb, satanic slut”, referred to Bar Counsel as a worthless and inept “satanic slut”, and said that the chief justice of the Florida Supreme Court should be executed for tolerating hate crimes and witchcraft.
In another Facebook post cited in the report, the lawyer accused the judge who took over the divorce case of sodomizing the lawyer’s daughter. The lawyer also stated on his blog that the judge issued “a satanic order” and that he and judges like him “have weaponized their judicial power for evil that appear racist to minorities. I don’t and won’t call it racism because it trivializes and distracts from his objective criminal behavior and practice of witchcraft.”
The referee’s report also cites a post in which the lawyer said the two judges “can’t hide from my almighty God’s vengeance; like David, I will kill Goliath and hold up his bloodied and severed head with a smile on my face.”
The referee found in the report that the lawyer’s posts had “grown more frequent, threatening and outrageous” as the Bar matter progressed. The January 21, 2021 Florida Supreme Court Order disbarring the lawyer was issued two weeks after his arrest on criminal charges, including threatening harm to a public servant.
Bottom line: This is an outrageous and disturbing example of a lawyer losing his license and being criminally prosecuted for improper online and internet activity and communications, this time on Facebook and his public blog.
Be careful out there and, of course, watch what you say online.
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