This is an attorney for Lin Wood's former law partners during a hearing on Sept. 23, 2020, in a transcript.
Lin Wood's counsel R. Joseph Burby attributed his client's "emotional tailspin" to the toll of the turmoil in his firm and his ex-partners telling his children he was having mental health issues.
Wood claims he felt they were trying to drive a wedge with his family.
Chief U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell's thundering ruling keeping Richard Barnett behind bars before trial ranks as one of the most outraged and passionate speeches that I have heard delivered from the federal bench.
The developing story above only captures a sliver of it.
But Howell's oratory can be summarized by those three words: "Brazen. Entitled. Dangerous," a trio of adjectives the judge repeated twice—and a distillation of the smirking image of Barnett with his feet on a desk in Pelosi's office with a stun gun in his pants.
Richard "Bigo" Barnett, seen here with a stun gun in his pants and foot on a desk inside House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office, has a remote hearing now in the District of D.C.