Supreme Court Drops The Hammer On Marvin Pendarvis

Good. Lawyer can be a noble profession, but most decide to be sleaze balls. Either cheat people, chase ambulances for money while knowing the client wasn’t hurt, or perverting justice for monetary gain.

As usual, I am the contrarian and shedder of light on unexplored aspects.
That client of Marvin Pendarvis’ wanted to hold out for more money than $10K in a case where there was no personal injury.
Does that client have ANY IDEA how difficult it is to win ANY case against a law-enforcement officer (“LEO”)?
For starters, there is the formidable hurdle of qualified immunity (which I think should be abolished or severely limited) whereby a so-called LEO would testify to something race-neutral but in reality racist like people who part their hair the wrong way are “in [that LEO’s] experience likely to commit the crime [that LEO] suspected.”
The plaintiff has to prove absence of probable cause.
Then, the county or South Carolina’s Insurance Reserve Fund, or whoever has a defense contract for that LEO would hire a private lawyer, usually a judge’s relative or friend or paramour, to defend the case to the hilt.
Then there are the non-sympathetic juries, specially if influenced by the likes of Becky Hill.
I heard, for example, that former Columbia Police Officer (later-promoted to Investigator) Pugh broke a man’s tooth; and all the City settled for was $5K.
Yes, the SAME City settled McCoy’s case for $300K, again no personal injury, only having witnessed a suicide in the neighboring cell in the fearsome Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center during the false incarceration of one day.
But McCoy was himself a lawyer and the case had gotten huge publicity, in addition, the other City officers were caught red-handed tampering with the dashcam video of McCoy’s arrest and destroying it.
And even after a case is valiantly-fought and a jury returns a verdict for the plaintiff after two or three years of litigation, the defendant can tie the case for three to five more years on appeals before the plaintiff sees a penny of the verdict.
I personally think Eric Bland is out to terrorize all lawyers and to destroy the careers of all black lawyers who do not worship him.
A $10K settlement was probably a reasonable one for Marvin Pendarvis’ client’s case; but the client was greedy, probably dreaming of a George-Floyd-type settlement. Marvin Pendarvis’ first mistake was to fail to set REALISTIC expectations for that client, indeed in taking that case at all in the first place.
Marvin Pendarvis’ second mistake was trying to appease that client with money.
Are those mistakes worth disbarment? I think the cases of “anonymous member of the bar” who, for example engage in sexual relationships with clients’ spouse are much worse.
But then, I am no longer surprised at the degrees of hypocrisy.