Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-07-26
BAR SOCIETY
GETS CHARGES
AGAINST LAIR
Attorney Jesse ID. Hamrick
Files Formal Complaint Pro-
testing Treatment by Judge.
COURT WELCOMES AIRING

Judge Frank J. Lair of Juvenile court,
against whom charges have been fled
with the Marion County Bar Association,
By Attorney Jesse D. Hamick, welcomes
the action, declaring the association
ESoEld Investigate the attorneys conduct.
X. Hamrick has placed in the hands
OF the grievance committee OF the bar
association a protest agsinst the action
of Judge Lair in ordering he attorney
to leave the courtroom severss lays ago.
Mr.. Hamrick appeared in curt to aid
the State in the prosecution O. Mrs
Maxine Turner who was charged Win
the neglect Of her child. When Judge
Lair learned that the woman was for
merly a client of Mr. Hamrick in a divorce
action and that the attorney was ap
peariux as counsel for the husband in
prosecuting Mrs. Turner the court held
that such action was improper on the
part of counsel aud ordered him from
the court room. Mr.. Hamrick protested
but left.
LAIR LAYS
HE'S WILLING.
81 think that the bar association
should take up Mr.. Hamrick's conduct
in addition to this case also Judge Lahr
said today.
Mr.. Hamrick states that he wants the
bar association to know how unfairly
he has been treated by Judge Lair"
Mr.. Hamrick, in his communication to
the bar association. stated:
II can not in this brief petition. pre-
sent for your intelligent consideration
those matters and facts so important TO
a fair and intelligent administration of
justice in the Marion County Juvenile
Court.
"On April Z. 1921. I fled a suit for
divorce for Maxine Turner. On April %.
BIZ her written dismissal that case was
dismissed. I was never, after that date,
in her employ nor had she in any man
ner consulted or advised with me, nor
had l been he- attorney in any capacity.
On June 10 affidavits were sworn
to in the juvenile court, charging
Noble Pifer with contributing TO the
delinquency OF my clients 2-yearold
child by reason OF having had improper
relation with my clients wife. Maxine
Turner. who was also under arrest
charged with child neglect.
"On July >. 1921 Charles O.. Turner
employed me to look after his interests
in those cases in the Juvenile court and
to look after the interests Of his 2-year
old child
AS may he Observed, the violations of
the law charged against Noble Pifer and
Maxine Turner occurred several weeks
after I had. in any manner, been the at
tOrney for Maxine Turner. By no intel
Hgent analogy or reasoning could I or
any other lawyer be barred from assist
ing in presenting a case. based absolutely
and entirely upon facts occurring long
after the relation Of attorney and client
had ceased to exist.
Every lawyer is a sworn officer Of the
court and isn't it his duty not only to the
court but to the public as well to assist
the court in a clear and fun administra-
ton Of Justice and in every fair and hon
orable way TO bring relative and compe-
tent evidence before the court for its i'm
partial consideration?
Il appeal to your body. that in this
country no court has even a semblance Of
right 70 say who may or who may not
sit i'm the courtroom during the hearing
Of a public trial
FIGHTS AGAINST
COURTS METHODS.
This is not a country in which class
distinction may autocra tically prevail or
be tolerated under guise Of any pretext
or excuse In this country. the within
Of no court though coupled with power
may long shut out the light demanded
By justice.
I'm appealing TO yoHr body for a
thorough investigation of the facts in
this case, I beg TO assure you that such
evidence will be sdduced as will convince
you that the denial Of a lawyer to ap-
pear under the law and the facts as in
this case is a gross violation Of a great
basic principle guiding the administra-
ton Of Justice
It viii be some time probably before
The Bar Association reports on the com
municatiOn of Mr.. Hamrick because the
association is in vacation during the
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