By Juan Montoya
The Internet is boiling over after a local attorney who was losing a child visitation and child support case called the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on the opposing party, a Mexican national, and then saw him arrested and detained on immigration charges.
And the attorney who was representing the man pro bono, vows to continue to defend his parental rights and to gain legal immigration status.
Attorney Liz Valdez Garza posted that opposing counsel – Bruce Tharpe, a former professional wrestler and practitioner of lucha libre in Matamoros – "tipped" off ICE after he was losing the case in family court. Even though Tharpe was not identified in Valdez-Garza's post, responded in a Facebook post that his actions were protected by client-lawyer privilege.
"It is what it is. He is illegal," Valdez-Garza wrote that Tharpe had said at the time.
The overwhelming majority of comments on her Facebook page were against the tactic employed by Tharpe. In her post, Valdez-Garza said that the ICE agents had come into the courthouse after the "tip" and waited for hours until her client was exiting the building and then detained him.
"Breaks my heart that opposing counsel (Tharpe) was aware and indifferent," Valdez-Garza wrote.
Now that opposing counsel know what Tharpe is capable of doing if he is losing in court, will they trust him to keep his word in any negotiations they may enter with the former professional wrestler?
What about potential clients whose immigration status may be suspect? Will they trust him to represent them now?
And what of his friends in the Matamoros pro wrestling circuit who accepted him into their ranks? Will they see him with the same trust they had before?
10 comments:
ethics? what ethics?
i don't need no stinkin ethics!
el bruce
ese wrestler es rudo, bad dude, or un PVC-pinche vato culero
So Bruce Thorpe was detained by Juan Martinez... ironic.
Check to see if there is anything between him and the client, as sex is rife in the child support court.
El Santo was better then this hillybilly and even mil mascaras...
If I was him I would not walk in any dark places, as his wrestling skills are no match for a few people with baseball bats. At least he has a good knick name Scumbag.
If I was him I would not walk in any dark places, as his wrestling skills are no match for a few people with baseball bats. At least he has a good knick name Scumbag.
I am the new scumbag in town, now Oliveria is going to meet Bubba. I will get my clients freedom, as I rely on my cell phone and speed dial to get my clients off by calling I.C.E. I will vailable on 956scumbag.
I will find a way if you can't pay I have a guaranteed way to win, I have I.C.E on speed dial, and I call them before we go into the court I.C.E arrives before the court starts and he will be arrested and I will win, for failure to attend court as he is deported. It is a win, win situation. I have a foolproof system that is proven to be foolproof, for a scumbag like me
What a load of cods wallup this excuse for a man, he has written his down fall and he has just finalized his life as a lawyer. Now back to his future as a bum.
Post a Comment