You have to wonder if this guy is actually working for the other side.
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Alex Jone's lawyer just had his license suspended for releasing Sandy Hook records. His Proud Boy client's sedition trial opens next week.
Attorney Norm Pattis, who represented Alex Jones during his defamation trial in Connecticut this summer, had his license to practice law suspended by a judge for six months for accidentally releasing cell phone and medical records related to Sandy Hook.
Pattis remains on the legal team for Jason Biggs, one of five Proud Boys now on trial for seditious conspiracy in federal court in Washington, DC, according to two sources with knowledge of his circumstances but who were not at liberty to be quoted by name.
But at least as of now, he will only be able to serve as Biggs' paralegal, meaning he will be unable to directly address the judge, jurors, or witnesses during the trial, the sources said.
Pattis is expected to ask the trial judge on Monday to be allowed to take a larger role representing his client, one of the sources said. Jury selection in the high-profile case is expected to conclude Monday, with opening statements set for Tuesday.
In August, Pattis accidentally sent a digital file that contained Jones' cell phone contents and some medical records of Sandy Hook parents to the opposing counsel. The parents had successfully sued the far-right conspiracy theorist for defamation and were in the middle of a trial seeking damages.
"We cannot expect our system of justice or our attorneys to be perfect but we can expect fundamental fairness and decency," Judge Barbara Bellis, who sat on the Connecticut trial, wrote in her order suspending Pattis' license. "There was no fairness or decency in the treatment of the plaintiffs' most sensitive and personal information, and no excuse for the respondent's misconduct."
Pattis had argued the dissemination of information was an accident, but Bellis rejected his claim, noting that the attorney has been a member of the state bar for 30 years.
"Simply put, given his experience, there is no acceptable excuse for his misconduct," she wrote.
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