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Chris Cawood SagaSubmitted by Rockwood Lawyer on November 26, 2008 - 7:33am.
The Tennessee Court of Appeals ruled yesterday that there should be a trial regarding Kingston attorney Chris Cawood's claim that several officers of the Roane County Sheriff's Office committed "outrageous conduct" (a tort which is also referred to sometimes as "intentional infliction of emotional distress") after the officers investigated a sex-related complaint by one of Cawood's divorce clients. This ruling reverses the trial court, which held that Cawood's claims should be dismissed. For those that have not followed this story, or read Cawood's book about it, you can read the Court of Appeals decision here. The facts are unusual.
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Does he have no shame or sense of embarrassment? Why on earth would he keep this alive? Even if the sex was consensual, she was a client. If it goes back to trial what sort of vindication is there? Was he ever brought before the Bar Association for his own conduct?
from the Tennessee Board of Professional Responsibility, which is available online.
Does public censure carry any ramifications at all? It's great that his actions didn't reduce the quality of his representation, but one would like to believe that an officer of the court would hold himself to a higher standard than a common panderer. I agree with WC that a gag order should be imposed to keep him from further embarassing the community.
Look...We don't have a movie theater, our own tv station, or much of anything else that is local to keep us entertained.
Instead, we have Chris Cawood.
My problem is that the folks that "investigated" Chris are now gone from power. Why bother?
money hes going to get paid!the hair brain schemes our leaders pull here r going to cost us millions when there caught
... You're not holding your breath waiting on Cawood to get rich off his lawsuits here.
Out of his original lawsuits, he's got precious little left. The Court of Appeals allowed him much smaller grounds to press for a trial than he originally sought. And even that is on very tenuous ground as to what he can actually get out of it. After all, his own actions precipitated the whole thing. If he hadn't been so anxious to whip things up, as it were, this could never have happened.
As it was, what got him in trouble was NOT the hair brained schemes of leaders. It was his own hair brained schemes to behave in a reprehensible manner that was acknowledged by his peers to be unprofessional. Nobody cares who whips or pinches him. But when he himself asks to have it done and ties professional services to it, he raises it to a new level.
The whole thing is stupid, but it is not a situation created by others - "hair brain schemes of our leaders". as you put it. It is a situation ultimately created by him. He has nobody to blame but Chris Cawood. That's the origin of the whole mess.
Tough.
RB
i dident condone his activites the manner in wich our sherriffs dept ackted was reeally disturbing as well.i dont know what grounds they have allowed him but it appars to me he wants money or attention.