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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEVADA
ZACH COUGHLIN;

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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEVADA
zach coughlin,
petitioner
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washoe legal services, CAAW, et al
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Supreme Court No: 60317
NOTICE OF BERKE AND SOME OF THE MULTITUDE OF BASIS FOR A
MISTRAIL, AND THE NEED FOR EXTENSIONS OF TIME FOR COUGHLIN
TO MAKE NECESSARY FILINGS HEREIN GIVEN THE RAMPANT
MISCONDUCT IN THE RENO JUSTICE COURT AMONGST ITS BAILIFFS,
AND OTHERS IN THEIR OBSTRUCTIONIST TACTICS IN CONNECTION
WITH COUGHLIN'S ATTEMPTS TO ACCESS MATERIALS NECESSARY TO
HIS DEFENSE, PARTICULARLY THOSE IN THE VARIOUS WRONGFUL
EVICTIONS METED OUT BY THE RJC BENCH
Petitioner, ZACHARY BARKER COUGHLIN, representing himselI., Iiles I
respectIully submit
Scribd AmJur 7 Am. Jur. 2d Attorneys at Law B. Disciplinary
Proceedings
2. Discipline as a Judicial Function
33. What courts have disciplinary power
However, a court's authority in the discipline oI attorneys practicing beIore it
is limited to the jurisdictional boundaries oI that court and cannot extend to other
courts beyond that boundary.|FN4| Unless restricted by the constitution or a statute,
a court oI general jurisdiction has inherent power to suspend or disbar an attorney
who is Iound guilty oI conduct unbecoming the standard oI propriety that should be
maintained by members oI the legal proIession.|FN5| Courts oI special or limited
jurisdiction have no power to disbar an attorney unless that power has been
expressly conIerred on them.|FN8| |FN4| In re Moseley, 643 S.E.2d 190 (Va.
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2007). - |FN5| Ex parte Wall, 107 U.S. 265, 2 S. Ct. 569, 27 L. Ed. 552 (1883).
|FN8| Appeal oI A Juvenile, 61 Ohio App. 2d 235, 15 Ohio Op. 3d 400, 401
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34. Preliminary general investigation by bar
3. EIIect oI Disbarment or Suspension
37. Generally
39. On practice in federal courts
4. Grounds Ior Discipline
b. Misconduct as an Attorney
(1). In General
44. Generally
(2). In Relation to Court or Judge
45. Generally
46. Frivolous or unfounded litigation
47. Communications with judge
49. Suppression or fabrication of papers or evidence
50. Disrespectful, abusive conduct
51. Criticism of judicial acts
52. Contempt
53. Failure to cooperate with disciplinary body
(3). In Relation to Clients
(a). In General
54. Failure to act honestly and in good Iaith
(c). Negligence; Inattention to Duty
66. Generally
68. Aggravating Iactors
69. Mitigating Iactors
(4). Unethical Conduct
70. Generally
71. Acting as attorney and witness
72. DeIamation oI and other conduct toward litigants or attorneys
d. NonproIessional Misconduct
(1). In General
82. Generally
83. Alcohol or drug abuse
(2). Conviction or Commission oI Crime
86. Generally
91. Other crimes and oIIenses
Use, in attorney or physician disciplinary proceeding, oI evidence obtained by
wrongIul police action, 20 A.L.R.4th 546 (60838 violation oI NRS 171.136)
92. EIIect oI appeal or probation
93. EIIect oI pardon
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94. Conviction in another jurisdiction
96. EIIect oI acquittal, dismissal, or nolle prosequi
5. DeIenses to Disciplinary Action
98. Mental or emotional illness
99. Entrapment
g 1. Other defenses
. Procedure
101. Nature oI proceeding
102. Who may institute proceeding
103. Limitations and laches
104. Right to jury
g 15. Due process requirements; notice and opportunity to be heard
106. --Presumption oI innocence
107. Failure to answer
108. Discovery
109. Right to subpoena witnesses
110. Evidence; admissibility
A Ioreign jurisdiction's adjudication oI guilt will be accepted as conclusive
prooI oI guilt oI the misconduct charged unless the attorney demonstrates why the
Ioreign judgment is not valid. The Florida Bar v. Friedman, 646 So. 2d 188 (Fla.
1994).
"This March 22, 1960, at Chambers in Cookeville, Tennessee.`
|1| |2| |3| The record sustains the Special Chancellor`s decree and it is aIIirmed.
However, there are two legal propositions in connection with this appeal which we
should like to discuss brieIly. The Iirst is, that it is not the rule that an opinion oI a
chancellor, or oI this Court, or a decree thereon, any more than a judgment oI the
Circuit Court in a civil matter as distinguished Irom one criminal in nature, in a suit
not brought to disbar an attorney, has *147 the eIIect oI estopping a lawyer in a
subsequent disbarment proceeding so as to prevent the introduction oI any prooI
therein contrary to the opinion and decree. The rule is that records,that is
pleadings and prooI in cases in which an attorney appeared either as an attorney or
as a partycan be oIIered in evidence to the extent they are relevant to the issue oI
Iitness to practice, but that such records and judgments are not res judicata and do
not necessarily work an estoppel in a subsequent disbarment suit.

The law on this subject is best discussed in the case oI In re Santosuosso, 318 Mass.
489, 62 N.E.2d 105, 107, 161 A.L.R. 892. In that case which was an inquiry into
certain alleged misconduct oI Santosuosso, an attorney, upon a petition oI the Bar
Association oI the City oI Boston, the petitioner oIIered in evidence the entire
printed record in the Iiles oI the clerk oI the Supreme Judicial Court Ior the
Commonwealth oI Massachusetts in a civil case in equity in which Santosuosso had
been a deIendant, and the Iindings and order in the case. Santosuosso objected that
the evidence was not admissible under the doctrine oI res adjudicata and also that
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apart Irom the doctrine oI res adjudicata, the statements made by a judge in his
Iindings and decree were not admissible as evidence. In holding that the paramount
considerations supporting proceedings to investigate the worthiness oI members oI
the bar to practice law could not be deIeated by the application oI strict rules oI
evidence governing the trial oI adversary proceedings between parties, and that the
necessity Ior the preservation oI the integrity oI the courts and the saIety oI the
public rises above strictly technical rules oI evidence that govern such adversary
proceedings between parties, the court said:
*148 We are oI opinion that the evidence contained in the record oIIered by
counsel designated by the court to conduct the proceeding, that is, the evidence
adduced at the hearing in the Superior Court oI the equity suit in question, at which
the respondent, a party thereto, was present and represented by counsel, testiIied
and had Iull opportunity to present and examine witnesses and to cross-examine
those called by the plaintiII, is admissible in the present inquiry. See State ex rel.
Nebraska State Bar Ass`n v. Gudmundsen, |145| Neb. |324|, 16 N.W.2d 474. We
reach this conclusion without dependence upon such cases as Selling v. RadIord,
243 U.S. 46, 37 S.Ct. 377, 61 L.Ed. 585, Ann.Cas.1917D, 569, and Matter oI
Ulmer, 268 Mass. 373, 167 N.E. 749, in each oI which a judgment oI disbarment in
another judisdiction was held to settle the issue that the attorney in question was
unIit to practice. We are unwilling to attach such conclusive eIIect to a judgment at
law or a Iinal decree in equity, based upon alleged corrupt conduct on the part oI a
deIendant attorney, where the judgment or Iinal decree entered rests upon Iindings
that the attorney has been guilty oI corrupt conduct. * * * we are oI opinion that the
evidence in the proceeding in equity in question is admissible in an inquiry such as
the present, and like any other evidence is to be given such weight as the single
justice shall deem proper, when considered together with all other evidence that the
respondent may produce **571 at the hearing, in the course oI which he must be
heard with Iull opportunity to present all relevant evidence that he may wish to
adduce.

*149 The Ioregoing view Iinds support in such cases as In re Lacy, 234 Mo.App.
71, 112 S.W.2d 594; In re Pate, 232 Mo.App. 478, 119 S.W.2d 11; State ex rel.
Nebraska State Bar Ass`n v. Gudmundsen, 145 Neb. 324, 16 N.W.2d 474; Werner
v. State Bar, 24 Cal.2d 611, 150 P.2d 892, and FairIield County Bar v. Taylor, 60
Conn. 11, 22 A. 441, 13 L.R.A. 767. See also Matter oI Becker, 229 App.Div. 62,
6566, 241 N.Y.S. 369; Id., 255 N.Y. |223| 233, 174 N.E. 461; Wigmore on
Evidence, 3d ed. 4(7). In the Gudmundsen Case the court, aIter stating that there
had been some doubt as to the admission oI evidence such as that oIIered in the
present proceeding, said: It is thought, however, that this question should no longer
remain in doubt. It is thereIore the holding oI this court that the Iinding in a civil
action that an attorney at law has been guilty oI conduct justiIying disbarment is not
conclusive on the same question when presented Ior determination in an action Ior
disbarment; that notwithstanding the Iinding in the civil action the culpability oI the
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attorney must be established in the disbarment action by a clear preponderance oI
the evidence. For this purpose the evidence taken at the trial oI the civil action and
all other competent evidence is admissible` (page 476 oI 16 N.W.2d).`

Other cases holding, in general, to this same eIIect are: In re Berkeley, 174
App.Div. 205, 160 N.Y.S. 1093; In re Bailey, 31 Ariz. 407, 254 P. 481; FairIield
County Bar v. Taylor, 60 Conn. 11, 22 A. 441; In re Durant, 80 Conn. 140, 67 A.
497; State ex rel. Nebraska State Bar Association v. Gudmundsen, 145 Neb. 324,
16 N.W.2d 474; Metropolitan Street R. Co. v. Oppenheim, 58 App.Div. 510, 69
N.Y.S. 524.
*150 State v. Bomer, 179 Tenn. 67, 162 S.W.2d 515, supports this view. This was a
proceeding against Bomer Ior his disbarment on the ground he had instituted prior
disbarment proceedings in Chancery Court against two attorneys Ior no just reason
and without any probable cause, being actuated by motives oI personal hatred and
ill will, and had thus abused the court`s process as a means oI carrying out his
desire Ior personal vengeance. Upon Bomer`s objection to the introduction oI the
decrees oI the Chancery Court in the suits which he had Iiled against the two
attorneys (which decrees recited the suits were without merit), our Supreme Court
said that such decrees could be received in evidence, not as conclusive prooI oI the
charges against Bomer, but only as evidence in the case, to show the result oI the
prior trials, and in that case the recitation in the decrees that the suits were without
merit, was not taken as Ioreclosing that issue to Bomer and other prooI in regard
thereto was oIIered by him and heard.
|4| |5| The second proposition upon which we should like to comment is with
respect to the application oI the doctrine oI laches to this case. The doctrine oI
laches may be applicable in a disbarment proceeding and the Special Chancellor
could very well have predicated his opinion and decree in good part thereon. The
incident out oI which this disbarment proceeding arose occurred in 1950. It was
Iully investigated by the Chattanooga Bar Association in that year with the result
that that Association recommended that no disciplinary action be taken against
Berke. The petitioner had immediate notice oI the incident and caused investigation
to be made oI it. However, no court action was taken against Berke until the
commencement oI these proceedings in 1959, nine years aIter *151 the incident.
We think such long delay, unexplained as it is in this record, coupled with prooI
that witnesses have died or otherwise have become unavailable, constitutes laches
(Gibson`s Suits in Chancery, 5th Ed. 81) and was a ground Ior **572 dismissal
oI the petition. In 7 C.J.S. Attorney and Client, 25b, it is stated Staleness in a
charge against an attorney may prevent its being considered, because an
unreasonable delay in the presentation oI a charge oI misconduct may make it
impossible Ior an attorney to procure the witnesses or the testimony which would
have been available at an earlier time to meet such charge.` That is the condition
here. The gravity oI the charges demanded that they be examined Iully at the Iirst
opportunity. That this was not done does not appear to have been the Iault oI Berke,
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who oIIered to appear beIore the petitioner and submit to an investigation. Nor,
does it appear the delay has been to his beneIit but rather, strongly, to his detriment.
Moreover, it appears that in the nine year period Berke has not transgressed against
the ethics or the morals oI the legal proIession, but to the contrary sustains a good
reputation as a lawyer. In such case, the doctrine oI laches was applicable."
Tennessee Bar Ass`n v. Berke, 48 Tenn.App. 140 (1960) 344 S.W.2d 567
Also, see, In re McCarty, --- A.3d ---- , Vt. S.W.2d ; Attorneys at law: delay
in prosecution oI disciplinary proceeding as deIense or mitigating circumstance, 93
A.L.R.3d 1057 (especially as to NG12-0435's three and a halI year old Order AIter
Trial that was vitiated by a subsequently entered Final Decree anyways...permitted
the equitable deIense oI laches to bar an attorney disciplinary action, Tenn. Bar
Ass`n v. Berke, 344 S.W. 2d 567, 571-72 (Tenn. Ct. App. 1960), where the vast
majority oI courts leave the ultimate question oI whether laches is available in legal
malpractice unaddressed. See In re Tenenbaum, 918 A.2d 1109, 1113-14 (Del.
2007); In re Johnson, 2004 MT 6, 20-21, 84 P.3d 637 (2004); In re Siegel, 708
N.E.2d 869, 871-872 (Ind. 1999); Ching v. State Bar oI Nevada, 895 P.2d 646, 648-
49 (Nev. 1995); In re Wade, 814 P.2d 753, 764 (Ariz. 1991); Harris v. State Bar oI
Cal, 800 P.2d 906, 910, (Cal. 1990). Courts have Iound similarly in other
proIessional disciplinary proceedings, such as physician disciplinary actions.
"In State v. Bomer, 179 Tenn. 67, 162 S.W.2d 515 (1942), the grounas of
aisbarment were unfustifiea ana malicious prosecution of aisbarment suits against
two other lawyers. (Pat King would be playing the Bomer role in this movie) The
Iact oI the Iiling, manner oI prosecution and disposition oI the prior disbarment
actions were proven by the records in said cases. The Iollowing is Iound in the
Bomer opinion: In determining the question oI malice, it is proper Ior the Court to
consider the entire record, including *648 the bill and answer, as well as attending
circumstances. * * * * * * This proceeding is in no sense a review oI the decrees
rendered in the **302 Boyd and Gerber cases.` The question Ior consideration in
the instant case is, whether or not the charges made in these cases were Ialse and
malicious, made without investigation and without probable cause. 179 Tenn. at 79,
162 S.W.2d at 521. In Tennessee Bar Association v. Berke, 48 Tenn.App. 140,
344 S.W.2d 567 (1960) we Iind: Complainant predicates its cause wholly upon
two decrees rendered against the deIendant, (1) the opinion oI the Chancery Court
oI Knox County, Tennessee, wherein the deIendant was Iound guilty oI gross
negligence in exchanging Nine Thousand Nine Hundred and No/100 ($9,900.00)
Dollars oI new money Ior old, the new money having been stolen Irom Dobyns-
Taylor Hardwere Company, located at Kingsport, Tennessee, and (2) the opinion oI
the Court oI Appeals oI Tennessee, Eastern Division, rendered on November 28,
1958, wherein that Court aIIirmed the judgment oI the Chancellor in the Knox
County Chancery cause, but Iurther held that the deIendant, Harry Berke, had been
paid a substantial Iee as a remuneration Ior his part in a conspiracy to conceal the
identity oI the money, which opinion and judgment oI the Court oI Appeals became
incontestable on or about the 8th day oI April, 1959, when the Supreme Court oI
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* * *649 The rule is that records,that is pleadings and prooI in cases in which an
attorney appeared either as an attorney or as a partycan be oIIered in evidence to
the extent they are relevant to the issue oI Iitness to practice, but that such records
and judgments are not res judicata and do not necessarily work an estoppel in a
subsequent disbarment suit. 48 Tenn.App. at 147, 344 S.W.2d at 570. ReIerring to
State v. Bomer, the Court Iurther said: * * * Upon Bomer`s objection to the
introduction oI the decrees oI the Chancery Court in the suits which he had Iiled
against the two attorneys (which decrees recited the suits were without merit), our
Supreme Court said that such decrees could be received in evidence, Not as
conclusive prooI oI the charges against Bomer, but only as evidence in the case, to
show the result oI the prior trials, and in that case the recitation in the decrees that
the suits were without merit, was not taken as Ioreclosing that issue to Bomer and
other prooI in regard thereto was oIIered by him and heard. 48 Tenn.App. at 150,
344 S.W.2d at 571. In Tennessee Bar Association v. Freemon, 50 Tenn.App. 567,
362 S.W.2d 828 (1961) this Court held inadmissible the testimony in a Iormer case
to which the accused attorney was not a party, and said: To sustain the action oI the
Chancellor in admitting the testimony oI Mrs. Spinks as evidence in this case the
Bar Association relies most strongly upon the leading case oI Re Santosuosso, 318
Mass. 489, 62 N.E.2d 105, 161 A.L.R. 892. That case involved an inquiry into the
proIessional conduct oI Attorney *650 Santosuosso. As the opinion points out, it
was not a truly adversary proceeding but an inIormation asking not Ior disbarment
or other disciplinary action but rather Ior such action as the court might deem
proper. But, we think, A more acute distinction lies in the Iact that the evidence
admitted was contained in the transcript oI evidence in a Case to which
Santosuosso was a party, in which he appeared in person and by counsel and cross
examined the witnesses against him and in which there was an adjudication oI
misconduct personal to him Irom which he could, iI he chose, appeal. **303
(emphasis supplied) 50 Tenn.App. at 572, 362 S.W.2d at 831. It thus appears that
there was a Iinding in the Iormer case that the attorney had been guilty oI conduct
justiIying the disbarment. There was no such Iinding in the present case. 50
Tenn.App. at 573, 362 S.W.2d at 831. In SchoolIield v. Tennessee Bar
Association, 209 Tenn. 304, 309, 353 S.W.2d 401 (1962) the Supreme Court
aIIirmed a disbarment decree and said: In the trial court the complainants relied
upon the record oI the impeachment proceedings in the State Senate * * *.` (p.
306," Berke v. Chattanooga Bar Ass`n, 58 Tenn.App. 636 (1968) 436 S.W.2d
296.
Evidence that would otherwise be hearsay may be admitted iI not oIIered to prove
the truth oI the matter asserted. In5 Although a reIeree may not go behind a
conviction to determine the attorney's guilt oI an ethical violation, a reIeree may
consider evidence concerning the circumstances behind a conviction in determining
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the recommended discipline.|FN7| Where a disciplinary proceeding is based on
acts disclosed in the record oI a civil action in which the attorney was a party, the
record oI the other cause is admissible in the disciplinary proceeding.|FN8|
Nontestimonial evidence Irom other civil proceedings to which an attorney was a
party are admissible in a disciplinary proceeding against the attorney where the
Iactual issues in the underlying proceeding and the disciplinary proceeding are
essentially identical.|FN9| A Ioreign jurisdiction's adjudication oI guilt will be
accepted as conclusive prooI oI guilt oI the misconduct charged unless the attorney
demonstrates why the Ioreign judgment is not valid.|FN10| A statement made
during a disciplinary proceeding enjoys an absolute privilege against a civil action
based thereon as long as the statement is relevant and material to the proceeding.
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|FN7| The Florida Bar v. Cohen, 908 So. 2d 405 (Fla. 2005). - |FN8| In re
Disciplinary Action Against Perry, 494 N.W.2d 290 (Minn. 1992). - |FN9|
Rosenthal v. State Bar, 43 Cal. 3d 612, 238 Cal. Rptr. 377, 738 P.2d 723 (1987). -
|FN10| The Florida Bar v. Friedman, 646 So. 2d 188 (Fla. 1994). - |FN11| Hecht v.
Levin, 66 Ohio St. 3d 458, 1993-Ohio-110, 613 N.E.2d 585 (1993).
Certain documents produced in the course oI investigation oI respondent
attorney, including a trust account ledger Ior client's account and a statement Ior
client's checking account, did not constitute hearsay in attorney disciplinary matter;
attorney provided the documents in response to a subpoena, such that the
documents were presumably what the attorney represented as his own work and
records, and because attorney prepared and submitted the documents, he arguably
maniIested a belieI in the validity oI the documents. Rules oI Evid., Rule 801(d)(2).
In re Crews, 698 S.E.2d 785 (S.C. 2010). (NOTE: reversible error Ior Echeverria to
rule that Coughlin could not authenticate or provide Ioundation Ior the various
audio and video recordings he sought to introduce into evidence.
In attorney disciplinary proceeding; relevant, testimony presented may
involve where attorney's counsel was able to attack the opposing counsel in a
Iormer matter testiIying as a witness as the disciplinary hearing's credibility and
establish any potential bias or prejudice other attorney may have had against
attorney. In re White, 378 S.C. 333, 663 S.E.2d 21 (2008), reinstatement granted,
380 S.C. 200, 669 S.E.2d 588 (2008). Hearing oIIicer in attorney disciplinary
proceeding could omit portions oI expert testimony on standard oI care and was not
required to give any weight to the testimony that was admitted; one expert was
judge who had been retired Ior twenty-Iour years, another expert improperly
reIerred to rules oI lawyer discipline as only general guidelines, no expert had
specialty in ethics, and attorney Iailed to show that any expert was more
knowledgeable that hearing oIIicer. Burtch, In re Disciplinary Proceeding Against,
162 Wash. 2d 873, 175 P.3d 1070 (2008).
Attorney's decision to call his own character and reputation witness at the
beginning oI disciplinary hearing opened the door on the subject oI his character;
thus, allowing later witnesses to testiIy concerning attorney's reputation as a lawyer
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and his reputation Ior honesty was rebuttal testimony aIter attorney's own character
witness testiIied. Burtch, In re Disciplinary Proceeding Against, 162 Wash. 2d 873,
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"HEARING - Vol. I, (Pages 213:25 to 229:13) MR. COUGHLIN: I'm going to put
on some evidence right now. This is the audio Irom the trial, Judge Nash Holmes'
deal. MR. ECHEVERRIA: Do you have a copy Ior us? MR. COUGHLIN: Yes, I
do. MR. ECHEVERRIA: Do you have a transcript? MR. COUGHLIN: The audio
transcript? MR. ECHEVERRIA: I don't know what you are oIIering, so I would
like to see a transcript. MR. COUGHLIN: The oIIicial audio Irom the muni court.
MR. ECHEVERRIA: What is it exactly that you're proIIering here? MR.
COUGHLIN: It's a court oI record. They record the proceedings. And it's the audio
Irom that proceeding. Pat King has it. I got it Irom Pat King. MR. ECHEVERRIA:
Which proceeding is this? MR. COUGHLIN: The traIIic case that she testiIied to
today where she said, I asked you iI you were recording, and then you got all
sneaky, and then you wanted to go to the bathroom. And I want to show this and
show whether or not the going to the bathroom occurred beIore the sua sponte
interrogation about the recording, and we'll see how truthIul Judge Nash Holmes
will be. MR. ECHEVERRIA: Do you have a transcript oI that proceeding? MR.
COUGHLIN: The problem is I appealed it. And under the law she is supposed to
order the transcript whether I pay a down payment or not, but they keep breaking
the law in the muni court. They just Ilat out break the law. Some people might say
it helps their bottom line not to prepare the transcript, even though the law says
they have to. MR. ECHEVERRIA: My question is, do you have a transcript? MR.
COUGHLIN: Yes. MR. ECHEVERRIA: May I see it, please? MR. COUGHLIN:
No. It's an audio transcript. MR. ECHEVERRIA: Do you have a transcribed
transcript? MR. COUGHLIN: You mean like a typed out? Some oI this stuII I
typed out. II you had read the stuII I submitted to you, you would see I typed some
oI it out myselI. MR. ECHEVERRIA: So it's not a certiIied transcript? MR.
COUGHLIN: The only certiIied one I have, I believe, is that Richard Hill trespass
case. MR. ECHEVERRIA: Well, what is it exactly that you're oIIering now? MR.
COUGHLIN: The audio Irom the trial. MR. ECHEVERRIA: I don't want it just
played into evidence. MR. COUGHLIN: You let him just read stuII into evidence
Irom an order. MR. ECHEVERRIA: No, it was aIter it was admitted into evidence.
MR. COUGHLIN: All right. I would like to admit into evidence the DVDs that I
gave you, that I attached. MR. ECHEVERRIA: I have three or Iour DVDs. Can
you be speciIic? MR. COUGHLIN: Yeah. The one attached as exhibit, I believe
it's Exhibit 4 to the ex parte motion. MR. ECHEVERRIA: I don't have an Exhibit
4. MR. COUGHLIN: But I also was told that you consented -- is it not the case
that you consented to electronic service to some extent? MR. COUGHLIN: I did
not consent to that. MR. COUGHLIN: Then how did you rule on a motion iI --
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MR. ECHEVERRIA: The motion was written, presented to me, and I ruled. MR.
COUGHLIN: How did you get the motion? MR. ECHEVERRIA: The State Bar
provided it to me. MR. COUGHLIN: Oh. So did the State Bar provide all the
DVDs I gave them? MR. ECHEVERRIA: That's their Iunction, Mr. Coughlin.
MR. COUGHLIN: Did they provide the DVDs I gave them? MR. ECHEVERRIA:
No. MR. COUGHLIN: They didn't? I thought that was their Iunction. MR.
ECHEVERRIA: No. II you have evidence to present, identiIy it. Let's be speciIic.
MR. COUGHLIN: Yes. The DVDs. MR. ECHEVERRIA: That's not speciIic, sir.
MR. COUGHLIN: It's the Iile on the DVDs that is 11 TR 26800R -- I only have a
limited time. Can I play this? MR. ECHEVERRIA: I don't know anything about it.
MR. COUGHLIN: It has my name on the Iile, and it's on the DVDs attached. MR.
ECHEVERRIA: That does not lay a Ioundation. MR. COUGHLIN: It's the
oIIicial court audio Irom the muni court case that Judge Nash Holmes testiIied to.
MR. ECHEVERRIA: Lay the Ioundation. You object to documents that have a
certiIication by the county clerk or the city clerk. MR. COUGHLIN: Mr. King
gave me this. He gave it to me as part oI the leItovers Irom his screening panel,
which he still won't tell me who was on the screening panel. It's the court oI record
audio recording by the muni court oI that. MR. ECHEVERRIA: Do you have that
on a separate DVD or disk or whatever? MR. COUGHLIN: I gave it to Mr. King.
MR. ECHEVERRIA: As a separate document? MR. KING: Actually, it's not. It's
not, Mr. Chairman. I encouraged Mr. Coughlin to go to the municipal court and
purchase or acquire, however it's done appropriately, oIIicial records -- MR.
COUGHLIN: And I did. Actually, my mom did. MR. KING: Mr. Coughlin said, I
can't get them. They won't give them to me. MR. COUGHLIN: Yeah, they
wouldn't. MR. KING: I said that's not my responsibility. You get them. And I
contacted the court myselI just to Iind out, and they said all he needed to do is come
in, Iill out a short Iorm, and he can acquire them. MR. COUGHLIN: Which was a
total lie. MR. KING: So that's what they told us. So I explained to Mr. Coughlin
that I don't have the oIIicial version. I have copies which are, in essence, copies oI
copies. The reason I object to any use oI audio records -- MR. COUGHLIN: I was
wrong, Mr. King. I'm sorry. My mom actually bought an oIIicial version, just to cut
to the chase. MR. ECHEVERRIA: Mr. Coughlin. Can you tell me how many times
I need to remind you not to interrupt? At what point do you get it? MR.
COUGHLIN: Sir, I just thought it would be helpIul to the court, given the limited
time we have here today to make sure the court is aware I might have misspoke
earlier when I said -- I did get a copy Irom Mr. King -- MR. ECHEVERRIA: Can
you answer my question, sir, and quit interrupting? MR. COUGHLIN: Yes, sir.
MR. ECHEVERRIA: Mr. King. MR. KING: Thank you. The reason I object so
strongly to these recordings is a transcript you can look at, you can Iill in the
blanks, iI you want to read on either side oI something to put it in proper context,
you can. And that's why a court requires a written transcript. I was punished to sit
through the recordings oI all these proceedings as part oI my job as Bar counsel
doing an investigation. They go on Ior hours. And in the case oI this particular
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matter more than one day. So to suggest that anything is going to be proved by
having Mr. Coughlin pull out excerpts and have you listen to it where there is no
ability to put it in proper context, no ability to see the entire record, I think is highly
prejudicial, and no doubt would conIuse the matter as opposed to assisting the
matter. Dorothy Nash Holmes' order as she said it speaks Ior itselI. Those were her
Iindings. That's when she testiIied that this is what I believe took place with regard
to the audio transcript. But that wasn't the sole reason Ior her contempt order, and
he was convicted. So him wanting to burden us by having you listen to an excerpt
oI a video recording I think is highly inappropriate. Plus, Mr. Coughlin has
demonstrated an ability to post matters to YouTube, to do editing, and we have no
way to know whether or not, in Iact, these have been edited. I have listened to a
couple oI excerpts Irom him regarding an arrest, and it is my opinion that they were
extremely altered. So Ior those reasons, either an oIIicial transcript be produced oI
which he's had plenty oI time to acquire one, or they not be admitted Ior that
purpose. Thank you. MR. ECHEVERRIA: I'm going to require you to lay a
Ioundation Ior whatever it is you proIIer. MR. COUGHLIN: Yes, sir. I provided to
this court and the Bar true and accurate copies oI the oIIicial audio transcripts. And
in some instances the pleadings have gone in typed out things. In one instance Ior at
least probably 80 percent oI the summary eviction I took advantage oI a Iree trial.
MR. ECHEVERRIA: I'm Iocusing on what you're proIIering now. MR.
COUGHLIN: Yes, sir. MR. ECHEVERRIA: This is a transcript oI the trial Ior
your traIIic citation? MR. COUGHLIN: Yes, sir. MR. ECHEVERRIA: The one
that Judge Holmes issued an order Iinding you in contempt? MR. COUGHLIN:
Yes. MR. ECHEVERRIA: Did you appeal it? MR. COUGHLIN: I tried to. She
wouldn't let me. MR. ECHEVERRIA: And it's a Iinal order? MR. COUGHLIN: I
did the research on that, but she is saying -- I don't know what she is saying. But
she is not letting me appeal it. MR. ECHEVERRIA: We know what she said in her
order. So I'm not going to entertain an inquiry into the conduct oI the trial on your
traIIic citation itselI. That issue has been litigated. And iI you are oIIering portions
oI that transcript without a Ioundation, without a witness here to tell us that what
you are about to play is an oIIicial part oI the transcript, without an oIIicial written
transcript that is easily obtained, I'm going to sustain the objection. MR.
COUGHLIN: Did he have a witness to say the order was such and such? MR.
ECHEVERRIA: Yes. It's called a certiIication. MR. COUGHLIN: He got orders
that weren't certiIied into the record today. Mr. Elcano -- MR. ECHEVERRIA: He
laid a separate Ioundation Ior them. I'm giving you an opportunity to lay a
Ioundation Ior what you are about to play. MR. COUGHLIN: Okay. MR.
ECHEVERRIA: I'm not going to take it on your word. MR. COUGHLIN: Why
not? MR. ECHEVERRIA: Because the law requires a Ioundation to be laid.
Independent. MR. COUGHLIN: Independent oI what I can lay Ior it? MR.
ECHEVERRIA: Right. I want something Irom the court that says this is an oIIicial
transcript. MR. COUGHLIN: My objection, I believe I am able to lay a
Ioundation. I'll testiIy under oath this is an oIIicial copy oI the audio transcript in
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that case. MR. ECHEVERRIA: But you don't know that. MR. COUGHLIN: Yes,
I do know that. My mom had to go pay Ior it because they would not give it to me
Ior months. They wouldn't let me buy one. Pat King played his little game and
wouldn't give it to
me. He wouldn't give me any oI the screening panel things, because he's so
dishonest. It's disgusting. MR. ECHEVERRIA: Mr. Coughlin, Irom my view one
oI the rules oI proIessional conduct is to treat opponents with respect. MR.
COUGHLIN: I agree. MR. ECHEVERRIA: I'm not sure that comment you just
made is respectIul. So let's proceed. II you're about to play some audio, I'm not
going to permit it without an adequate Ioundation being laid. So move on. MR.
COUGHLIN: Can I -- without an adequate Ioundation being laid. And I can't say
it's the audio my mom had to pay Ior, 35 bucks, to get Irom the court? MR.
ECHEVERRIA: No. Your mother is not here. II you want to call her, we'll listen to
what she has to say. MR. COUGHLIN: I don't have a phone. I can call her? MR.
VELLIS: Can he use this one? MR. COUGHLIN: Should I get up and dial? MR.
ECHEVERRIA: Pardon me? MR. COUGHLIN: Should I approach the phone and
dial? MR. ECHEVERRIA: However you think you need to lay a Ioundation. MR.
COUGHLIN: Mr. King, he can't lay the Ioundation? He was provided these by the
muni court. MR. ECHEVERRIA: This is your case, sir. MR. COUGHLIN: Can I
call Pat King and say, Pat, were you provided these copies oI the audio? Everything
is a copy, okay, it's not -- MR. ECHEVERRIA: What's the oIIer oI prooI? What
are you intending to prove? MR. COUGHLIN: To show she is so reckless. To
show a lot oI things. But one, this idea that a conviction is completely dispositive,
he cited no authority Ior that. MR. ECHEVERRIA: Mr. Coughlin, the supreme
court issued an order in your case that says with respect to, in essence, a conviction,
that the sole issue to be determined here is the nature and extent oI the punishment.
MR. COUGHLIN: But that's the candy bar thing. You guys made a hearing about
30 other things. MR. ECHEVERRIA: I'm sorry. I kept talking while -- MR.
COUGHLIN: You were done talking, and I responded. You keep trying to bait me,
and you keep trying to make a record oI that, and it's dishonest the extent to which
you do that. You stop talking, and I respond. I didn't talk over you that time. And I
resent the Iact that you keep appearing to want to do that. MR. ECHEVERRIA:
The supreme court, as I read its order, tells this panel that the only issue to be
determined with respect to a conviction is the nature and extent oI the punishment,
iI any. So iI you have testimony on that issue with respect to any conviction, or
order holding you in contempt, please present it. MR. COUGHLIN: Not under
Claiborne. Claiborne says a conviction is not the end oI the inquiry. That in Iact,
the panel and the Bar have a duty to look beyond the conviction. MR.
ECHEVERRIA: We have a speciIic order in your case with respect to what the
issues to be determined in this proceeding are with respect to a conviction. So do
you wish to oIIer evidence as to the nature and extent oI punishment, iI any, that
should be rendered by this panel? MR. COUGHLIN: Yes. And I -- MR.
ECHEVERRIA: Please proceed. MR. COUGHLIN: Okay. So I'll play that audio
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with your permission. MR. ECHEVERRIA: I'm sustaining the objection because it
lacks Ioundation. MR. COUGHLIN: Then I'll call my mom. May I approach to
call my mom? MR. ECHEVERRIA: Sure. (Telephone call being placed.) MR.
COUGHLIN: Mom, it's Zach. MRS. BARKER: Yeah. MR. COUGHLIN: Listen,
you're on the record right now, okay? The panel can hear you. Are you there?
MRS. BARKER: I'm having trouble hearing you. But anyway -- I'm in a store. Go
ahead. MR. COUGHLIN: You're being listened to right now and recorded. Okay?
MRS. BARKER: I understand that. MR. COUGHLIN: I need to ask you -- MR.
ECHEVERRIA: Let's put her under oath. Would you swear the witness in, please.
(The oath was administered telephonically to the witness.) MR. ECHEVERRIA:
Would you tell us your Iull name and address, please. MRS. BARKER: Mary
Eleanor Barker. 94 -- MR. ECHEVERRIA: Spell your last name. MRS. BARKER:
B-a-r-k-e-r. MR. ECHEVERRIA: And your address, please. THE WITNESS: 945
West 12th Street. MR. ECHEVERRIA: West what street? MRS. BARKER: 12th.
MR. ECHEVERRIA: South? MRS. BARKER: 12th. Reno, Nevada 89503. MR.
ECHEVERRIA: Thank you, Ms. Barker. Mr. Coughlin, you may proceed. MRS.
BARKER: No, it's Barker. MARY BARKER having been Iirst duly sworn,
testiIied as Iollows: DIRECT EXAMINATION BY MR. COUGHLIN: Q Mom,
did you have to buy an audio oI the trial with that Judge Nash Holmes? A Did I
have to buy an audio? Q Yeah. Did you buy a copy oI the proceeding? A Yes. Q
Did you give it to me? A Oh, God. I think so. I did several things. I paid $100 Ior
something -- no, that was something else. Q Right. You paid a hundred dollars Ior
bail, and she wouldn't let me out, but she kept the money anyway? A Yes. And the
man that I gave the money to told me that you would be released within several
hours, and you weren't. Q They did the old switcheroo, right? A I'm sorry? MR.
ECHEVERRIA: Mr. Coughlin, I would appreciate it iI you would reIrain Irom
interrupting even your own mother. THE WITNESS: Especially his own mother.
MR. COUGHLIN: Is that good enough? MR. ECHEVERRIA: No. BY MR.
COUGHLIN: Q Mom, was it an oIIicial copy? A I don't know. Q Did you go to
the court and say I want a copy oI the proceeding, and you paid the money they
asked you to pay? A I don't know that it was oIIicial or not. But I requested a
copy, yes. I would assume it would be oIIicial. I was requesting it in the
courthouse. Q And you Iilled out whatever Iorm it was they made you Iill out, and
paid whatever money it was they wanted right? A Yes."
"HEARING - Vol. I, (Pages 215:24 to 217:19) MR. ECHEVERRIA: Well, what is
it exactly that you're oIIering now? MR. COUGHLIN: The audio Irom the trial.
MR. ECHEVERRIA: I don't want it just played into evidence. MR. COUGHLIN:
You let him just read stuII into evidence Irom an order. MR. ECHEVERRIA: No,
it was aIter it was admitted into evidence. MR. COUGHLIN: All right. I would
like to admit into evidence the DVDs that I gave you, that I attached. MR.
ECHEVERRIA: I have three or Iour DVDs. Can you be speciIic? MR.
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COUGHLIN: Yeah. The one attached as exhibit, I believe it's Exhibit 4 to the ex
parte motion. MR. ECHEVERRIA: I don't have an Exhibit 4. MR. COUGHLIN:
But I also was told that you consented -- is it not the case that you consented to
electronic service to some extent? MR. COUGHLIN: I did not consent to that. MR.
COUGHLIN: Then how did you rule on a motion iI -- MR. ECHEVERRIA: The
motion was written, presented to me, and I ruled. MR. COUGHLIN: How did you
get the motion? MR. ECHEVERRIA: The State Bar provided it to me. MR.
COUGHLIN: Oh. So did the State Bar provide all the DVDs I gave them? MR.
ECHEVERRIA: That's their Iunction, Mr. Coughlin. MR. COUGHLIN: Did they
provide the DVDs I gave them? MR. ECHEVERRIA: No. MR. COUGHLIN:
They didn't? I thought that was their Iunction. MR. ECHEVERRIA: No. II you
have evidence to present, identiIy it. Let's be speciIic. MR. COUGHLIN: Yes. The
DVDs. MR. ECHEVERRIA: That's not speciIic, sir. MR. COUGHLIN: It's the
Iile on the DVDs that is 11 TR 26800R -- I only have a limited time. Can I play
this? MR. ECHEVERRIA: I don't know anything about it."
Hardly anything that came out oI the Panel Chair's mouth was true on
11/14/12: HEARING - Vol. I, (Pages 215:24 to 216:7) "MR. ECHEVERRIA:
Well, what is it exactly that you're oIIering now? MR. COUGHLIN: The audio
Irom the trial. MR. ECHEVERRIA: I aont want it fust playea into eviaence. MR.
COUGHLIN: You let him just read stuff into evidence from an order. MR.
ECHEVERRIA: Ao, it was after it was admitted into evidence..."
"HEARING - Vol. I, (Pages 45:5 to 47:15) BY MR. KING: Q Mr. Hill, do
you recognize that document? A This is the attorney's Iees order Irom Judge
Flanagan. MR. COUGHLIN: I object, your Honor. MR. ECHEVERRIA: Wait a
minute, Mr. Coughlin. Wait. MR. COUGHLIN: Yes, sir. MR. ECHEVERRIA:
There's a question, Mr. King? MR. KING: Yes. I asked Mr. Hill iI this was the
order that he was testiIying about regarding the judge ordering oI sanctions oI
$40,000 in attorney's Iees. MR. ECHEVERRIA: Do you have an objection to that
question, Mr. Coughlin? MR. COUGHLIN: Well, sir, I thought he was putting it
into evidence. So I probably was too early to object. MR. ECHEVERRIA: That's
why you interrupted too early? MR. COUGHLIN: Yeah. I'm sorry. MR.
ECHEVERRIA: Mr. Hill. THE WITNESS: Yes, sir. This is the award regarding
attorney's Iees in accordance with NRS 69, I believe it's 050. There is also an order
granting us approximately $2500 in costs. BY MR. KING: Q In this particular
order at Page 2, is this the order signed by Judge Flanagan? A Yes, sir. Q What
date did Judge Flanagan sign this order? A This is dated June 25th, 2012, and it
bears a Iile stamp oI the same date. Q Could you read the paragraph regarding
"Merliss goes even Iurther and states." Could you read that paragraph on Page 2. A
Beginning at line 4? Q Line 9 on Page 2. A Okay. "Merliss goes even Iurther and
states: As proven above and below, the Irivolity and vexatiousness oI Coughlin's
maintenance and extension oI this matter has been so beyond reason, and so
outrageous, and the nexus oI his behavior to the Iees incurred by Merliss so direct
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and indisputable, that nothing less than a Iull award oI those Iees should even be
considered by the court. To not impose the Iull measure oI the harm Coughlin has
caused would reward and encourage his vexatiousness in this and other cases.
There needs to be a day oI reckoning Ior Coughlin's antics." Q In this order did
Judge Flanagan accept that by granting the Iull amount oI Iees requested? II you
read the last sentence oI Page 3. A Yes. "Accordingly, Merliss's motion Ior
attorney's Iees is granted in the sum oI $42,065.50. Q Do you have personal
knowledge oI whether or not, as the attorney Ior Dr. Merliss, whether or not that
award has been paid by Mr. Coughlin? A It has not. MR. KING: Mr. Chairman,
we have provided you with certiIied copies oI each oI these orders. I would move
that Exhibit No. 1 be admitted pursuant to the NRS statute 52 --"
g 111. --Sufficiency; standard of proof
Attorney and Client 53(2)
An attorney has no less rights than any other party, and as such, his or her
discipline must be based upon more than speculation.|FN1| Perhaps it is owing to
the relatively skint due process aIIorded to attorney respondent and the dint oI
availability oI discovery (particularly where King cheats the system and Coughlin
only gets one tenth oI the time to "inspect" the evidence and witness lists and other
items provided in SCR 105(2),(2)(c) that the Panel and King, under SCR 119,
should be held in contempt Ior Iailing to accord Coughlin) that the standard oI
prooI required in Nevada disciplinary matters is comparatively high to that in other
states. The courts have used diIIerent expressions to indicate the degree or
quantum oI prooI necessary to justiIy disbarment or suspension oI an attorney.
Courts have held: that a convincing preponderance,|FN2| a clear preponderance,
|FN3| or Iair preponderance oI the evidence is suIIicient;|FN4| that competent,
substantial evidence is required;|FN5| that the evidence is Iull, clear, and
convincing;|FN6| that substantial, clear, convincing, and satisIactory evidence is
needed;|FN7| or that clear and convincing evidence is essential.|FN8|
Because evidence that was not presented to the bar is virtually impossible
to evaluate in the absence oI cross-examination, the supreme court will
generally not consider it.|FN10| It would be inordinately unIair to allow King
to purposeIully Iail to timely supplement his DOWSOE (especially as to the
testimony oI Beesley and Elcano and the entry oI FHE2, an Order by Judge
Flanagan where nothing in the 8/23/12 Compliant in any way notice-pleads
Coughlin that such would be included in any allegation or was otherwise at
issue. Further, the Panel Chair was obviously either clueless to the concepts
oI notice and notice-pleading, or, more likely, just Iraudulently ran roughshod
over them in a more than willIul manner.
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Chairman, iI I could respond by pointing out the Iact that the order Irom
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Iees were generated because of Mr. Coughlin's vexatious conduct. And that
the Iees were reasonable and were awarded against Mr. Coughlin, not one
cent oI which has been paid. So I think any suggestion to the contrary is
irrelevant, because 1udge Flanagan's order is to be accepted by the panel.
MR. COUGHLIN: ...I don't know that's actually pled in your complaint,
Mr. King, or included amongst one of the three grievances. ... Am I here
today on Judge Flanagan's sanction? Is he a grievant and accorded a case
number too? ... MR. ECHEVERRIA: I believe you're here today to
measure all of your conduct as a practicing lawyer. ... MR. COUGHLIN:
So we're not here today based on what's been noticed? MR.
ECHEVERRIA: We're not here today to relitigate orders that have been Iiled
that you have appealed, and that you have lost. MR. COUGHLIN: ... I'm
asking what is it limited to? Because it sounds like from what you just said
it's not limited. MR. ECHEVERRIA: I don't intend to impose any limits on
you in terms oI what you attempt to proIIer as evidence. I will rule on what
you proIIer as evidence. MR. COUGHLIN: I'm saying what he's limited to,
your Honor. MR. ECHEVERRIA: The issue here, sir, as I understand the
supreme court's order with respect to your conviction oI theIt, and the issues
here with respect to the other grievances that have been Iiled against you are
to the extent as to what, iI any, should be the punishment that you should
sustain as a result oI your conduct. MR. COUGHLIN: Yet this is entered into
evidence. MR. ECHEVERRIA: This is what? MR. COUGHLIN: This order
has been entered into evidence. MR. ECHEVERRIA: Exhibit 2 has. MR.
COUGHLIN: But it's not pled in any complaint. Judge Flanagan's not a
grievant. I wasn't noticed that that was the purpose oI this hearing to some
extent today. MR. ECHEVERRIA: You were noticed that the issue oI your
conviction oI trespass was an issue, that your handling oI that case was an
issue, and it's relevant as to that." (NOTE: Panel Chair Echeverria time and
time again reverts to non-sequitur as his trusty workhorse when conIronted by
Coughlin with the appalling lack oI due process his Panel presents, something
he mixes up with only the occasional outright lie (conIronted with the
quandry presented by the rules that require these hearings be limited to what
is notice-pled, Echeverria reaches Ior the ol' "not here today to relitigate
orders" regardless oI the Iact that such order was neither notice-pled (not even
identiIied in the DOWSOE or any supplemental, as Hill's testimony is limited
therein to that occurring in 1708, not the appeal in 03628, to say nothing oI
the Iact that King purposeIully eliminated all reIerence to Hill or that
summary eviction appeal in his 8/23/12 Complaint, choosing also to avoid
seeking admission oI any written grievance by Hill (its like that SeinIeld
where Jerry takes his less than attractive girlIriend to the Chinese restaurant
way across town to avoid the embarrassment oI being seen with her);
conIonted again as to the notion that such hearing is limited to that which is
notice-pled, Echeverria lamely responds that he does not "intend to impose
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any limits on you" rather than address Coughlin's contentions as to the limits
imposed on bar counsel's presentation oI his case, then, where Coughlin
persists, Echeverria shows he is a real Iive tool player, and attempts to make
some nice broken Iield running by riIIing on his ridiculously Iraudulent
assertion that the "supreme court's order with respect to your convict oI theIt"
somehow provides a basis Ior Iinding Coughlin guilty oI all that alleged in
any oI the grievances (including imaginary ones that were not notice-pled)
and insisting Coughlin just bend over and skip straight to the "big mea culpa"
mitigation, mitigation dancey dance, Iinally Echeverria, who just will not let
it go, asserts that the Complaints reIerencing the trespass conviction (any
allegation that such is a SCR 111(6) "serious" oIIense is undone by King's
SCR 111(4) Petition reporting such "crime" in 61901, so...), stating: "You
were noticed that the issue of your conviction of trespass was an issue, that
your handling of that case was an issue, and it's relevant as to that". The
only problem is that where Echeverria wants to assert Coughlin's "handling oI
that case" involved the appeal (appeals have their own case numbers, and just
because Baker and Hill billed some hours in the justice court does not make
there moving Ior an award oI Iees based upon NRS 69.050 acceptable) oI the
summary eviction proceeding that Hill's associate handled (making Hill's
testimony, rather than Baker's rather dubious as to relevancy and or best
evidence notions) rather then the criminal trespass case (that case? Which
case? Whichever one the witch trial needs the most, apparently, rather
than whichever one lazy, entitled, assist. bar counsel with no training in his
Iirst week on the job Pat King manage to notice-plead).
However, quite clearly, that statutory remedy provided by NRS
40.253, and Anvui, not to mention CG Wallace, make quite clear that the "de
novo review" in the appeal "case" (03628) that Flangan's Order is Iound
within, involves not, in an analysis oI Coughlin's "handling" oI it (beyond the
Iact that such "case" was in no way notice-pled), anything to do with any
criminal trespass prosecution or conviction. Hill's client is Iree to Iile a
lawsuit Ior damages incident to the criminal trespass (though, he should
probably not given he was actually himselI participating in a burglary, in
addition to lying to and with the police and Hill to accomplish a Iraudulent
arrest), and King was Iree to notice-pled any such "handling" oI that "case" in
his Complaint, much less his DOWSOE, but, darn it, he just did not manage
to, so, no, Chair Echeverria, its not appropriate to make Flanagan's Order
(FHE2) King's lead-oII hitter in a Rickey Henderson star oI the show kind oI
way...
This, in addition to the Iact that the SBN and Iar too many oI the
judges in Reno and Washoe County are insipidly allowing this situation to
turn into an embarrassing rock Iight in the street/dumpster grease Iire oI epic
proportions (apparently not to help Hill purchase his twenty-Iourth Porsche,
but rather, to indulge base vindictiveness), that, like some Russian egg, peels
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away layer aIter layer oI misconduct and the incestuous relationship between
bailiIIs (Medina, Reyes, ChieI BailiII Sexton, Ramsey, and Heibert, they oI
the ripping up Coughlin's Iilings/throwing them away/making up new
wrinkles to the dubious at best "Administrative Order" requiring Coughlin to
conduct all business with the RJC through its abusive, unproIessional bailiIIs,
such as "only one Iiling per day", or "only IiIteen minutes a day to review any
and all Iiles" (that is when the bailiIIs aren't bizarrely indicating that "all your
eviction Iiles are in Carson" or providing some other misdirection non-sense,
such as citing to JCRRT 10 in relation to "landlord tenant matters' or criminal
cases)), marshals (Coppa, Thompson, Harley, Menzel), sheriIIs (Durbin,
Canizzaro, Stuchell, Machen), police oIIicers (SiIre, Look, Leedy, K. Brown,
Duralde, Rosa, CrawIord, Braunworth, Weaver, Dye, O. Miller, Schaur),
DAS OIIicers (Ramos, Wickman, C. Brown), bar counsel, Clerk oI Court oI
the SBN, juni courthouse security detail (A. Perez, M. Greene), and judge
aIter judge (SIerrazza, Flanagan, Elliott, Sattler, Schroeder, CliIton, Pearson,
Nash Holmes, L. Gardner, W. Gardner, Howard) process server companies
(Nevada Court Services, JeII Chandler, Wray, Durden) and property
managers (Sue King, Jared Scalise, Western Nevada Managment) cum
unauthorized practitioners oI landlord law, and the Hill, Baker, Kern,
(Loomis, Puentes, Sotelo, Dogan, Leslie, Lindsay collective oI Washington
Generals court appointed deIenders), (Skau, Christensen, Hazlett-Stevens,
Wong, Roberts, Ormaas, Drake, Sooudi, Young, Stege purveyors oI
prosecutorial misconduct), Elcano, Springgate, and other Goya-esqe
archetypes oI the Northern Nevada legal landscape, with the only silver lining
being that Coughlin more than paid Elcano back Ior hiring him on at Washoe
Legal Services by single handedly doing more Ior tenant's rights than the
WLS's Marc Ashleys oI the world would even come close to were they to
continue collecting a paycheck Ior two hundred years (exposing the state
sponsored burglaries by the Washoe County SheriII's OIIice, and the
complete indiIIerence to jurisdictional prerequisites (at least as Iar as they
beneIit tenants) demonstrated by the RJC as a whole), not to mention bring
light to an epidemic oI unproIessional, abusive, bullying, and Iraudulent
behavior by RMC Marshals and RJC BailiIIs, and some court staII (C.
Erickson, R. Baker, C. Wood, L. Matheus):
HEARING - Vol. I, (Pages 73:23 to 75:5) "MR. COUGHLIN: So
we're not here today based on what's been noticed? MR. ECHEVERRIA:
We're not here toaay to relitigate oraers that have been Iiled that you have
appealed, and that you have lost. MR. COUGHLIN: ...I'm asking what is it
limited to? Because it sounds like Irom what you just said it's not limited.
MR. ECHEVERRIA: I don't intend to impose any limits on you in terms oI
what you attempt to proIIer as evidence. I will rule on what you proIIer as
evidence. MR. COUGHLIN: I'm saying what he's limited to, your Honor.
MR. ECHEVERRIA: The issue here, sir, as I understand the supreme
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court's order with respect to your conviction of theft, and the issues here
with respect to the other grievances that have been filed against you are to
the extent as to what, if any, should be the punishment that you should
sustain as a result of your conduct. MR. COUGHLIN: Yet this is entered
into evidence. MR. ECHEVERRIA: This is what? MR. COUGHLIN: This
order has been entered into evidence. MR. ECHEVERRIA: Exhibit 2 has.
MR. COUGHLIN: But it's not pled in any complaint. 1udge Flanagan's
not a grievant. I wasn't noticed that that was the purpose of this hearing
to some extent today. MR. ECHEVERRIA: You were noticed that the
issue of your conviction of trespass was an issue, that your handling of that
case was an issue, and it's relevant as to that."
Special judge did not abuse his discretion, in disbarment proceedings, in
excluding exhibits evidencing attorney's pattern oI writing checks on trust account
to pay Ior personal obligations, to extent such exhibits were generated outside time
span covered by disbarment complaint, especially given that attorney was not
afforded prior notice of such exhibits and pleadings were not amended to reflect
such exhibits. Ligon v. Dunklin, 368 Ark. 443, 247 S.W.3d 498 (2007).
Attorney misconduct must be established by substantial, clear, convincing,
and satisIactory evidence; the touchstone oI the clear and convincing standard is
that the evidence must establish that the truth oI the Iacts asserted is highly
probable. In re Swanson, 288 Kan. 185, 200 P.3d 1205 (2009).
Attorney misconduct must be established by substantial, clear, convincing, and
satisIactory evidence. In re Nelson, 288 Kan. 179, 200 P.3d 1262 (2009).
Attorney misconduct must be established by substantial, clear, convincing, and
satisIactory evidence. In re Crow, 285 Kan. 1110, 179 P.3d 1093 (2008).
Attorney misconduct must be established by substantial, clear, convincing, and
satisIactory evidence, in an attorney disciplinary proceeding. In re Bishop, 285
Kan. 1097, 179 P.3d 1096 (2008).
Attorney misconduct must be established by substantial, clear, convincing, and
satisIactory evidence. In re Trester, 285 Kan. 404, 172 P.3d 31 (2007).
In an attorney disciplinary proceeding in which the lawyer does not answer
the Iormal charges, (Coughlin absolutely did answer all oI the charges, denying
guilt as to each an every one, and its especially pathetic where King and Peters
had to attempt to excise Coughlin's Iilings oI 10/30/11 and 11/9/11 Irom the
ROA, amongst others) if the legal conclusion the Office of Disciplinary
Counsel (ODC) seeks to prove (i.e., a violation of a specific rule) is not readily
apparent from deemed admitted facts, additional evidence may need to be
submitted in order to prove the legal conclusions that flow from the admitted
factual allegations. Sup.Ct.Rules, Rule 19, Lawyer Disciplinary EnIorcement
Rule, 11(E)(3), 8 LSAR.S. In re Hackett, 42 So. 3d 972 (La. 2010).
Clear and convincing evidence did not support referee's finding that
attorney violated disciplinary rule prohibiting a lawyer Irom Iailing to
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communicate with client or Iailing to diligently work on her case; record was
almost entirely silent on issues. State ex rel. Counsel Ior Discipline oI
Nebraska Supreme Court v. Wintroub, 277 Neb. 787, 765 N.W.2d 482 (2009).
In disciplinary proceedings against attorney, documents disbarring attorney in
Colorado Ior conversion oI client's trust Iund were prima Iacie evidence that he
committed the acts described therein, and thus attorney had the burden oI proving
that the Iindings Iorming the basis oI the Colorado disbarment were not supported
by the evidence or that the Iindings were not suIIicient grounds Ior discipline in
Oklahoma. State ex rel. Oklahoma Bar Ass'n v. Rymer, 2008 OK 50, 187 P.3d 725
(Okla. 2008).
|FN1| Kentucky Bar Ass'n v. CraIt, 208 S.W.3d 245 (Ky. 2006). -|FN2| Iowa
Supreme Court Attorney Disciplinary Bd. v. Joy, 728 N.W.2d 806 (Iowa 2007). -
|FN3| In re Disciplinary Proceeding Against Marshall, 160 Wash. 2d 317, 157 P.3d
859 (2007). - |FN4| Matter oI Capoccia, 59 N.Y.2d 549, 466 N.Y.S.2d 268, 453
N.E.2d 497 (1983). - |FN5| The Florida Bar v. Greene, 926 So. 2d 1195 (Fla.
2006). - |FN6| In re Disciplinary Action Against Nelson, 733 N.W.2d 458 (Minn.
2007). - |FN7| In re ComIort, 159 P.3d 1011 (Kan. 2007). - |FN8| In re Pharr, 950
So. 2d 636 (La. 2007); State ex rel. Counsel Ior Discipline oI Nebraska Supreme
Court v. Petersen, 272 Neb. 975, 725 N.W.2d 845 (2007). - |FN9| Maddy v. First
Dist. Committee oI Virginia State Bar, 205 Va. 652, 139 S.E.2d 56 (1964). -
|FN10| Baca v. State Bar, 52 Cal. 3d 294, 276 Cal. Rptr. 169, 801 P.2d 412 (1990).
- |FN11| The Florida Bar v. Roberts, 626 So. 2d 658 (Fla. 1993). - |FN12| Connor
v. State Bar, 50 Cal. 3d 1047, 269 Cal. Rptr. 742, 791 P.2d 312 (1990). - |FN13|
Rosenthal v. Justices oI the Supreme Court oI CaliIornia, 910 F.2d 561 (9th Cir.
1990).
112. Protection against selI-incrimination
113. Judgment and award oI costs; enIorcement
Where, however, the bar takes an excessively broad approach to a
disciplinary proceeding and Iails to abandon counts against the attorney which
could not be proved, each party should bear its own costs even though the
proceeding results in the disbarment oI the attorney.|FN5| II the state bar Iails to
prove allegations by clear and convincing evidence, costs should not be assessed
against the attorney in a disciplinary proceeding.|FN6| |FN5| The Florida Bar v.
McCain, 361 So. 2d 700 (Fla. 1978). - |FN6| State ex rel. Oklahoma Bar Ass'n v.
Albert, 2007 OK 31, 2007 WL 1417160 (Okla. 2007).
Pat King Iailed to seek costs until aIter Coughlin concluded his closing
argument, and Ior that reason alone, and in addition to the Iavorable comparision to
Iootnotes 5 and 6 above, costs should not be awarded to the SBN, but Coughlin
should be awarded costs oI $50,000, plus both a NRS 7.085 and NRAP 38 attorney
Iee award (and Coughlin, unlike Springgate, Hill, or Baker, did comply with the 21
day saIe harbor procedural requirement):
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HEARING - Vol. I, (Pages 330:16 to 331:20) "I thank you Ior your time
today. MR. KING: I have no Iurther argument as the panel chair directed, but I do
have something I need to put on the record. II the panel chooses not to disbar Mr.
Coughlin, but instead aIIord him some opportunity through reinstatement,
regardless, he should be held responsible Ior paying the costs oI the investigation oI
these proceedings. They shouldn't Iall on the other members oI the Bar to pay. And
I believe it would be appropriate since you heard evidence on the issue oI the court
order that he pay Dr. Merliss's Iees. That any reinstatement, iI you don't disbar him
permanently, would be he would be required to Iollow that court order to pay those
Iees. Thank you. MR. ECHEVERRIA: Anything Iurther? I'm going to propose,
because it's getting late, I would like to circulate an e-mail to the panel members
tomorrow to arrange a date when we can either get together in person and/or on the
phone and discuss the situation. We have 30 days, I believe, in which to issue a
written opinion. I would like to set up a meeting sometime within the next week
where we can all discuss this issue and come up with a ruling, and then I'll oIIer a
tentative ruling, then I'll oIIer to write the opinion and circulate it Ior approval or
disapproval. At this time is the hearing will stand adjourned, and I will circulate an
e-mail tomorrow. (Proceedings concluded at 5:30 P.M.)"
Also, it just ridiculous Ior King to be cheerleading Ior Hill's client to get
paid above all else.
114. Review
7. Reinstatement oI Disbarred Attorney
115. Generally; procedure
116. Considerations aIIecting right to reinstatement
117. Burden oI showing present good character
118. Review
Attorney and Client 56 As a general rule, because a reIeree in an attorney
disciplinary proceeding is in the best position to judge the credibility oI witnesses,
|FN1| the court will not second-guess a reIeree's recommended discipline as long
as that discipline is authorized under the state standards Ior imposing lawyer
sanctions and has a reasonable basis in existing case law.|FN2| When reviewing a
reIeree's recommended attorney discipline, the court's scope oI review is broader
than that aIIorded to the reIeree's Iindings oI Iact because the court has the ultimate
responsibility to determine the appropriate sanction.|FN3| However, since the court
has exclusive authority and wide latitude in determining disciplinary sanctions over
lawyers,|FN4| a reIeree's recommendation Ior discipline receives less deIerence by
the court than a reIeree's guilt Iinding.|FN5| Thus, although a reIeree's
recommendation in an attorney disciplinary proceeding is persuasive, the court does
not grant it the same deIerence as it does to guilt recommendations, because the
ultimate responsibility Ior determining the appropriate sanction rests with the court.
|FN6| It has been stated elsewhere that the court may impose whatever sanction it
deems appropriate, regardless oI the reIeree's recommendation, since the court does
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not accord the reIeree's recommendation as to appropriate attorney discipline great
weight or consider it conclusive, and that the court is entitled to impose discipline
more or less severe than the discipline recommended by the reIeree.|FN7|
Similarly, another court has stated that recommendations oI a bar association board
oI governors are advisory in nature, and the court makes an independent review oI
the record and Iindings oI Iact.|FN8| It has also been stated that, although the court
generally accords great weight to a review department's recommendation, its
Iindings and recommendations are merely advisory.|FN9| Although the attorney
sanctions Ior proIessional misconduct standards are not binding on the court, they
promote the consistent and uniIorm application oI disciplinary measures, and the
court will not reject a recommendation arising Irom application oI the standards
unless it has grave doubts as to the propriety oI the recommended discipline.|FN10|
The ultimate decision regarding attorney discipline rests with the court, which has
not hesitated to impose a harsher sanction than that recommended by the review
department, and when the Iacts have warranted doing so, the court has even
rejected a recommendation oI suspension and disbarred the attorney.|FN11| While
the court's scope oI review over disciplinary recommendations oI a reIeree is
broader than that aIIorded to the reIeree's Iindings oI Iact, the reIeree's
recommendation oI discipline is nevertheless aIIorded a presumption oI correctness
unless the recommendation is clearly erroneous or not supported by the evidence.
|FN12| Unlike a reIeree's Iactual Iindings in an attorney disciplinary proceeding,
which are entitled to deIerence Irom the court, a reIeree's order granting summary
relieI in an attorney disciplinary proceeding is reviewed de novo by the court.
|FN13 Where neither party Iiled a petition Ior review oI the hearing oIIicer's
Iindings in the attorney disciplinary proceeding, the Supreme Court would accept
and adopt those Iindings but would reserve Iinal judgment as to misconduct and
disciplinary sanction. In re Powell, 893 N.E.2d 729 (Ind. 2008). Generally, the
Supreme Court will not second-guess a reIeree's recommended attorney discipline
as long as it has a reasonable basis in existing case law and the Florida Standards
Ior Imposing Lawyer Sanctions. The Florida Bar v. Glueck, 985 So. 2d 1052 (Fla.
2008). Factual Iindings by the hearing judge in attorney disciplinary proceeding
will not be interIered with by Court oI Appeals iI they are Iounded on clear and
convincing evidence. Attorney Grievance Com'n oI Maryland v. Pawlak, 408 Md.
288, 969 A.2d 311 (2009). A unanimous decision oI state bar association
disciplinary board will be upheld in the absence oI a clear reason Ior departure.
Burtch, In re Disciplinary Proceeding Against, 162 Wash. 2d 873, 175 P.3d 1070
(2008). Evidentiary rulings made by the hearing oIIicer in an attorney disciplinary
proceeding will be reviewed Ior abuse oI discretion. Burtch, In re Disciplinary
Proceeding Against, 162 Wash. 2d 873, 175 P.3d 1070 (2008). The hearing
oIIicer's denials oI motions Ior mistrial are reviewed Ior an abuse oI discretion in
attorney disciplinary proceeding. Burtch, In re Disciplinary Proceeding Against,
162 Wash. 2d 873, 175 P.3d 1070 (2008). A de novo standard applies to a review
oI the adjudicatory record made beIore the Lawyer Disciplinary Board as to
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questions oI law, questions oI application oI the law to the Iacts, and questions oI
appropriate sanctions. Lawyer Disciplinary Bd. v. Cavendish, 700 S.E.2d 779 (W.
Va. 2010). The Florida Bar v. Senton, 882 So. 2d 997 (Fla. 2004). - |FN2| The
Florida Bar v. Greene, 926 So. 2d 1195 (Fla. 2006). - Absent a showing that a
reIeree's Iindings in an attorney disciplinary proceeding are clearly erroneous or
lacking in evidentiary support, the court is precluded Irom reweighing the evidence
and substituting its judgment Ior that oI the reIeree. The Florida Bar v. Senton, 882
So. 2d 997 (Fla. 2004). - |FN3| The Florida Bar v. Greene, 926 So. 2d 1195 (Fla.
2006). - |FN4| In re Tenenbaum, 918 A.2d 1109 (Del. 2007). - |FN5| The Florida
Bar v. Feige, 937 So. 2d 605 (Fla. 2006). - |FN6| The Florida Bar v. Cohen, 908
So. 2d 405 (Fla. 2005). - |FN7| In re Disciplinary Proceedings Against Nunnery,
2007 WI 1, 298 Wis. 2d 289, 725 N.W.2d 613 (2007). - |FN8| Kentucky Bar Ass'n
v. CraIt, 208 S.W.3d 245 (Ky. 2006). - |FN9| In re Silverton, 36 Cal. 4th 81, 29
Cal. Rptr. 3d 766, 113 P.3d 556 (2005). - |FN10| In re Silverton, 36 Cal. 4th 81, 29
Cal. Rptr. 3d 766, 113 P.3d 556 (2005). - |FN11| In re Silverton, 36 Cal. 4th 81, 29
Cal. Rptr. 3d 766, 113 P.3d 556 (2005). - |FN12| The Florida Bar v. Barcus, 697
So. 2d 71 (Fla. 1997). - |FN13| The Florida Bar v. Gold, 937 So. 2d 652 (Fla.
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, I declare this is true under penalty oI perjury pursuant to nrs 53.045:
In a 4/2/12 email to Coughlin the SBN OBC's King wrote: "The Grievance from
1udge Gardner relates to her 'Order AIter Trial in the case oI Ashwin Joshi v
Barti Joshi, Case Number DV08-01168, wherein she describes your conduct at
pages 12 and 13."
Will you please provide any records oI any sort oI NCJC Rule 2.15 report or
grievance by Judge Linda Gardner to the SBN regarding Zachary B. Coughlin, Esq.
This becomes important in that a Iailure by Judge Gardner (or Flanagan, or Elliott,
or whoever) to report any alleged proIessional misconduct by Coughlin to, say, the
SBN, invokes an analysis under NCJC Canon 2 Rule 2.15 as to whether any such
"appropriate action" (see the comments thereto) being such reporting to the SBN,
and an absence oI such, thereIore yields support Ior the view that Coughlin did not
commit any proIessional misconduct in, say DV08-01168, or CV11-03628, or,
well, certainly Judge Elliott would preIer as little be known about the hearing he
presided over on 4/19/12 in CR12-0376, one would imagine, so, there is probably
no record oI him reporting anything about that, to be sure...
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Please share this with ChieI Judge Hardy and copy any necessary "parties" to avoid
any allegation oI ex parte contact should such be necessary or please direct me as to
whom I should copy speciIically. II you know the SBN's King, like I do, you know
he is a compulsive liar, and I suspect that Judge L. Gardner made no such grievance
to the SBN. Rather, Judge Nash Holmes admitted at Coughlin's 11/14/12 Iormal
disciplinary hearing that she "probably" included in the materials she provided to
the SBN along with her 3/14/12 grievance against Coughlin (which she alleged to
be making with the "Iull cooperation and support oI the Reno Municipal Court, its
staII, and other judges oI the RMC" (which would included Judge L. Gardner's
brother, RMC Judge W. Gardner, whom, only disclosed that L. Gardner is his sister
(Iailing to during the 2/2/12 hearing) upon Coughlin prompting Ior such disclosure
a the 4/10/12 criminal trespass trial that the City oI Reno and RMC attempted to
hold in violation oI NRS 178.405 (not to mention violating Marsden and
Stankewitz, but whatever...)
2/2/12 criminal trespass hearing beIore RMC Judge W. Gardner where he Iails to
disclose that his sister is the same 2JDC Judge L. Gardner that Coughlin Iiled a
mandamus petition against in 53833 and 54844, and whose 4/13/09 Order AIter
Trial in DV08-01168 Washoe Legal Services (see 60302 and Judge Elliott's
abominable "jurisprudence" appealed in 60317) Exec. Director Paul Elcano cited as
the sole reason Ior terminating Coughlin in his 5/1/09 and 5/7/09 letters to Coughlin
(though Elcano conveniently changed his song come time Ior his sworn testimony
at Coughlin's Iormal disciplinary hearing on
11/14/12): http://www.youtube.com/watch?vYg9B1IdQXUQ
Then, on 4/10/12 Judge W. Gardner was Iorced to admit 2JDC Judge L. Gardner is
his sister upon Coughlin prompting Ior such disclosure
only: http://www.youtube.com/watch?vVVPx1zoVw5c
The 6/18/12 criminal trespass trial at which Coughlin was convicted (see 61901 Ior
the SCR 111(4) Petition by the same Bar Counsel, Pat King, whom went out oI his
way to avoid hearing or viewing the evidence oI the SheriII's burglaries and
misconduct at Coughlin's Iormer home law oIIices and rentals, and the misconduct
oI Richard G. Hill, Esq., Casey D. Baker, Esq., Gayle Kern, Esq., and Nevada
Court Services/Western Nevada Management....: http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v3uG-2J129A&Ieatureyoutu.be
emails between Coughlin and the City oI Reno attorney's who "happily" do their
dirty deeds:
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addresses-0204-60838-26800-22176-26405-00696-12420
http://www.rgj.com/article/20130701/NEWS/307010033/Reno-happily-deIend-
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The SBN's OBC King's 4/2/12 email to Coughlin is revealing:
"Subject: RE: my attempt to be provided access to the grievances Iiled today?
From: Patrick King (PatrickKnvbar.org) This sender is in your saIe list. Sent:
Mon 4/02/12 3:57 PM To: zachcoughlinhotmail.com
(zachcoughlinhotmail.com) Dear Mr. Coughlin, I have opened 3 disciplinary Iiles
against you. They are identiIied by number below: NG12-0204 Zachary B.
Coughlin, Esq. Bar No. 9473 (2005) Mr. Hill NG12-0435 Zachary B. Coughlin,
Esq. Bar No. 9473 (2005) Judge Holmes NG12-0434 Zachary B. Coughlin,
Esq. Bar No. 9473 (2005) 1udge Gardner You have received the grievance Irom
Mr. Hill and also the grievance Irom Judge Holmes. The Grievance Irom Judge
Gardner relates to her 'Order AIter Trial in the case oI Ashwin Joshi v Barti Joshi,
Case Number DV08-01168, wherein she describes your conduct at pages 12 and
13. I have received certiIied copies oI the contempt orders, a certiIied copy oI the
conviction at Wal-Mart, and an incident report Irom Marshals Thompson and
Coppa regarding your conduct on March 22, 2012. I also have the recordings oI the
court proceedings at issue. At this time, I do not expect to be providing you with
any additional inIormation. II you have additional inIormation that you want me to
be made aware oI in response to the grievances identiIied above please Ieel Iree to
mail them to me. Sincerely, Patrick King, Assistant Bar Counsel"
5/8/12: Keith Loomis, Esq.'s swan song as to his imitation oI deIense:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?vSW76cMukZPc&Ieatureyoutu.be Judge W.
Gardner imposes a no Iaxing order just Ior Coughlin's beneIit, and, oI course
Loomis, Judge W. Gardner, and RCA Hazlett-Stevens continue their rampage on
the mandatory stay required under NRS 178.405 given Judge Elliott's Order Iinding
Coughlin competent to stand trial did not even get entered until the Iollowing day,
5/9/12, and his Order remanding jurisdiction was not entered until 5/19/12 (not that
the RMC thinks that matters, given the blatant level oI disrespect they have Ior both
the 2JDC and Nevada Supreme Court).
RMC Judge L. Gardner's level oI jurisprudence did not improve much at the
6/18/12 trial in the criminal trespass matter, but at least Richard G. Hill, Esq. and
Casey D. Baker, Esq. hemmed themselves in to a lot oI really bad testimony that
would come back to bite them at the 11/14/12 Iormal disciplinary proceeding now
on appeal in 62337, and Reno City Attorney Deputy prosecutor Hazlett-Steven's
distinguished himselI by committing proIessional misconduct in violating SCR 123
by citing to an unpublished opinion a TN Case, State v.
Lovins: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v3uG-2J129A Really, its ironic that a
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big a hater as Hazlett-Stevens would cite to a case called Lovins, no? Haven't seen
that mix oI enmity, irony, and word play since Bob Love wrote that hit piece to the
Nevada Appeal in 1995: http://www.scribd.com/doc/154433989/3-20-95-Nevada-
Appeal-Sports-Letter-Rand-Should-Be-Player-oI-the-Year-by-Robert-Love-the-
Hater-0204
Its just sad to see justice and municipal court judges doing things that some might
say tend to besmirch the reputation oI oI those judges whom oversee their, uh,
jurisprudence, even those President oI the District Court Judges Association. It
would be nice iI the ChieI Judge oI, say, the Reno Justice Court could take some
cues Irom his august superior, Second Judicial District Court Judge David Hardy,
and consolidate the raIt oI baseless prosecutions and jurisdictional predicate and
prerequisite wanting summary evictions involving tenant and deIendant Coughlin
in the RJC, but, some might say, his Iellow judges would rather burden current
ChieI Judge Pearson with the Nev. Const Art. 6 Sec.6 mischaracterizing 12/20/12
Administrative Order 2012-01's oI Iormer ChieI Judge SIerrazza, and the extremely
ill advised approach taken by Judge CliIton (he oI the 11/27/12 on the record
comment "What Judge Pearson says isn't law to me, ha" comment) in the "misuse
oI 911" prosecution oI the very same Coughlin whom Master Edmondson Iound to
be a victim oI domestic violence at the hands oI not one, but both oI his sublessors
in FV12-00187, and 188. To be clear, RMC Administrative Judge William L.
Gardner, brother oI 2JDC Family Court Judge Linda Gardner, seems to have been
led down that primrose path by then ChieI Judge SIerrazza in copying, verbatim,
SIerrazza's 12/20/12 Administrative Order which such clearly misstate's the text oI
Nev Const. Art. 6 Sec. 6 in indicating that "Nevada courts" have authority to enter
such overreaching abuses oI process and denials oI the access to justice when, in
Iact, such constitutional section speaks only to the authority granted "District
courts". To be clear, though, it was only upon Judge Pearson's assigning a
criminal case number to such specious "Administrative Order 2012-01" on 3/14/12
that the separation oI powers blurring usurping oI the executive branch's
prosecutorial charging decision Iunction was put into such stark relieI Irom the
otherwise excellent jurisprudence and guidance (not to mention clarion call oI
propriety) provided by the current President oI the District Court Judges
Association.
Its just a wonder that more oI these limited jurisdiction court judges are not met
with a Canon 2 Rule 2.15 level oI consternation. One thing is clear, however,
Coughlin was not, not by Judge L. Gardner, not by Judge Patrick Flanagan, or any
other Second Judicial District Court Judge. Unless, the 2JDC wishes to provide
something to indicate otherwise, I will take any lack oI response as conclusive
prooI that such did not occur.
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Sincerely,
Zachary Barker Coughlin 1471 E. 9th St. Reno, NV 89512 Tel and Fax: 949 667
7402 ZachCoughlinhotmail.com
PS: King's email to Coughlin below evince a willingness to lie about the source oI
the NG12-0435 "grievance", which he compounded by lying about whether or not
Coughlin responded to such (includign the Iact that King's 4/19/12 email to
Coughlin only asks Ior a response to Hill and Judge Nash Holmes's grievance, yet
his 4/2/12 email to Coughlin mentions the "grievance" Irom Judge L. Gardner,
which Hill, purportedly Ieels he attached to the same 3/16/12 letter he alleges he
sent Coughlin:
"RE: Mr. King's assertion in his 3/16/12 letter? From: Patrick King
(PatrickKnvbar.org) This sender is in your saIe list. Sent: Thu 4/19/12 2:28 PM
To: zachcoughlinhotmail.com (zachcoughlinhotmail.com) April 19, 2012 Zach
Coughlin Dear Mr. Coughlin, A screening panel oI the Northern Nevada
Disciplinary Panel met on Tuesday April 10, 2011 to address the grievances Iiled
against you. The panel directed me to proceed to a Iormal disciplinary hearing. As
such, I will be preparing a Iormal Complaint. I understand Irom the e-mail below,
that you do not believe you should have been Iound guilty oI the theIt at Wal-Mart
and that you should not have been Iound in contempt oI Court. However, it must
concern you that you were Iound in contempt oI Court by more than one Judge in
two diIIerent trials. You wanted to know how I learned of or obtained a copy of
1udge Gardner`s Order after trial that was filed in 2009. It was sent to me by
the clerk of the court at my request, pursuant to my investigation. It would help
me and perhaps yourselI, iI you would respond and explain why you were
convicted oI theIt and why you were held in contempt oI Court. You may be well
served to explain what remedial measures you are taking to make sure you do not
repeat the conduct complained about. I cannot give you legal advice. However I
can suggest you cooperate with Bar counsel`s investigation and that you
respond specifically to the allegations contained in 1udge Holmes and Richard
Hill`s grievance letters to the oIIice oI Bar Counsel. Patrick King"
So, in his 4/2/12 email to Coughlin King's story is presented one way ("NG12-
0434 Zachary B. Coughlin, Esq. Bar No. 9473 (2005) 1udge Gardner You
have received the grievance Irom Mr. Hill and also the grievance Irom Judge
Holmes. The Grievance from 1udge Cardner relates to her ~Order After Trial
in the case of Ashwin 1oshi v Barti 1oshi, Case Number DV08-01168, wherein
she describes your conduct at pages 12 and 13." ) but by his 4/19/12 email to
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Coughlin, aIter being caught in his lies and the stickiness oI the remarkably suspect
"receipt stamping" oI the alleged "grievance Irom Judge Gardner" (her) marked
3/15/12 (with the "5" in the "15" presenting in various interlineated iterations,
dubiously), while Judge Nash Holmes 3/14/12 grievance letter is marked as
received on "3/14/12"...) King admits: :You wanted to know how I learned of or
obtained a copy of 1udge Gardner`s Order after trial that was filed in 2009. It
was sent to me by the clerk of the court at my request, pursuant to my
investigation."
Also, as to King's being a compulsive liar:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?vDhCMlIGhPIc that is King's "testimony"
"representing the State Bar oI Nevada and I will be a witness (in violation oI RPC
3.7 and NRS 33.250) ..and also in attendance with me is Laura Peters she is a
paralegal and the oIIicial court clerk oI the State Bar oI Nevada as well..."
It really does not take much discernment to determine that the link the the email
King indicates Coughlin sent to the WCPD and copied him on is to an audio clip
only (not a "movie" or "video") and that there certainly is not any "gun shots" or
"shooting" or
King oI Iunny Ior King to allege that he "received a grievance Irom a Iederal judge"
in NVB Judge Beesley when no such grievance was ever provided to Coughlin
(which did not stop King Irom identiIying Beesley as a witness the day beIore the
11/14/12 Iormal disciplinary hearing in an egregious violation oI SCR 105(2)(c))
and where Judge Beesley just did not seem to recall the Iact that Coughlin's 3/30/12
Iiling included exhibits that detailed to illegal conIiscation and search not incident
to arrest oI his smartphone by the Reno Municipal Court and Judge Beesley's 1977
McGeorge School oI Law Classmate, RMC Judge Dorothy Nash Holmes (both oI
whom share Washoe Legal Service's Paul Elcano as a Iellow alumn oI that class oI
1977, with Coughlin suing Elcano and WLS in 60302 and 60317 Ior wrongIul
termination, where Elcano indicated Coughlin was being Iired solely in response to
2JDC Judge L. Gardner's 4/13/09 Order AIter Trial in DV08-01168, which was
subsumed by her own 6/19/09 Final Divorce Decree anyways, and which itselI
violated the incorporation oI NRCP 11's 21 day saIe harbor provision via NRS
7.085 (making her allegation that such an attorney Iee award was just due to
"Iailure to Iollow procedural rules" particularly suspect, especially where it was
Springgate whom Iailed to timely Iile his Pre-Trial Statement or comply with Judge
L. Gardner's own Pre-Trial Order, particularly where the main source oI Judge
Gardner's criticism oI Coughlin related to Coughlin's insistence that Springgate was
in violation oI her own pre-trial order ("like the rule states" meaning the rule oI
law, ie, the law oI the case, ie her own 2/25/09 Pre-Trial Order) Ior Iailing to have
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bound, tabbed, and index, his exhibits where Springgate sought the introduction oI
in excess oI ten exhibits.
Also, there is "issues" with the 2JDC's apparent rejection Io Coughlin's 5/20/09
Iiling in that matter and the preservation oI arguments such would engender,
compared to the curious timing oI a 5/21/09 Order denying Coughlin's Motion Ior
Reconsideration....Then there is the attached handwritten notes detailing some oI
the peculiarities with respect to the inconsistent service oI various Iilings or
proposed orders in DV08-01168, particularly aIter Coughlin's termination Irom
WLS, especially where Coughlin was a necessary party or otherwise obviously had
a stake in such matters.
Then there is King's admitting to, in his 10/10/12 email to Coughlin, attempting to
Iraudulently skip out on his duties as assistant bar counsel under SCR 104(1)(d) and
SCR 111(4):
SCR Rule 104. State bar counsel. 1. State bar counsel shall: (d) File with the
supreme court petitions with certiIied copies oI prooI oI conviction demonstrating
that attorneys have been convicted oI serious crimes, as deIined in Rule 111..." "
SCR Rule 111. Attorneys convicted oI crimes. 4. Bar counsel`s responsibility.
Upon being advised that an attorney subject to the disciplinary jurisdiction oI the
supreme court has been convicted oI a crime, other than a misdemeanor traIIic
violation not involving the use oI alcohol or a controlled substance, bar counsel
shall obtain a certiIied copy oI prooI oI the conviction and shall Iile a petition with
the supreme court, attaching the certiIied copy. Upon being advised that an attorney
subject to the disciplinary jurisdiction oI the supreme court has been convicted oI a
misdemeanor involving the use oI alcohol or a controlled substance and the oIIense
is not the attorney`s Iirst such oIIense, bar counsel shall investigate and present the
matter to the appropriate panel oI the disciplinary board prior to the Iiling oI the
petition. The petition shall be accompanied by the panel`s recommendation
regarding the appropriate disciplinary action, iI any, to be imposed under these or
any other rules oI the supreme court that pertain to the conduct oI attorneys."
"Subject: RE: pending Iinal disposition oI disciplinary proceedings....language SCR
111(7) versus SCR 111(8) and the June 7th, 2012 Order oI the NV. S. Ct.?
From: Patrick King (PatrickKnvbar.org) This sender is in your saIe list. Sent:
Wed 10/10/12 9:44 AM To: Zach Coughlin (zachcoughlinhotmail.com) Cc:
David Clark (DavidCnvbar.org) Dear Mr. Coughlin, When you met with me and
David Clark to discuss the Complaint and the process. Mr. Clark explained that
since there was a conviction, 'the sole issue to be determined was the extent oI the
discipline. Not iI you committed the crime, since that was already determined
beyond a reasonable doubt. It is that context that we are reaaing the rule. Not that
the state bar is precluded Irom bringing additional allegations against you. Any
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additional allegations that have not already resulted in criminal convictions will
need to be proved by 'clear and convincing evidence. As such, at the hearing, on
the issue oI your criminal convictions, the only issue Ior the panel to decide is the
appropriate discipline. However, I will be providing evidence as to the other
allegations in the Complaint. The Panel will decide iI the state bar has met its
burden oI prooI as to those allegations in the complaint, other than the
criminal convictions, and will decide the appropriate discipline on the totality oI the
case, including mitigating and aggravating Iactors that may be presented at the
hearing. As such, I do not intendbifurcate these proceedings. I think to do so would
cause unnecessary conIusion, undue time and expense and would be prejudicial to
the administration oI justice. I am advised that you have not yet filed an Answer to
the Complaint... Patrick King, Assistant Bar Counsel."
Interestingly, King Ilips and Ilops between admitting Coughlin "Iiled an answer"
when he wishes to establish that Coughlin was "served" in accord with SCR 109,
only to allege (judicial estoppel, much?) that Coughlin violated in SCR 105 in
allegedly Iailing to Iile a "veriIied answer or response" in a timely Iashion to
Complaint in seeking a deIault:
HEARING (oI 11/14/12) - Vol. I, (Pages 6:21 to 7:6) "MR. KING: As the record
reIlects, Mr. Coughlin was served a copy oI the complaint to the address that he is
mandated to provide to the State Bar. MR. COUGHLIN: I don't believe that's
correct. MR. ECHEVERRIA: Please don't interrupt, Mr. Coughlin. Go ahead. MR.
KING: Subsequently, Mr. Coughlin filed, immediately after we mailed the
complaint via certified and regular mail, Mr. Coughlin Iiled a motion to dismiss
the complaint."

King alleges his Complaint in SBN v Coughlin was mailed on 8/23/12...so, which
is it? Did Coughlin "Iile" an Answer or not? II such was "Iiled, immediately aIter
we mailed the complaint", then why would not the 9/17/12 Motion to Dismiss that
Coughlin Iax Iiled with the SBN in compliance with the manner and method the
SBN/Clerk oI Court/NNDB/Panel approved Ior Iiling not be given the old DCR
13(3) treatment where King Iailed to Iile an Opposition to such until the deadline to
do so had passed (how embarrassing Ior an assistant bar counsel, talk about
violatign RPC 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, etc., pot meet kettle).
For whatever reason, (and one can be sure there is a good one...oh wait, there it is,
that darn Coughlin making such a Iuss over the number oI "grievances" and Irom
whom they were issued, and just how many judges were involved...shucks,
cornered ol' Pat King into a lie, and now Pat got stuck with being unable to seek to
admit his purported 3/16/12 letter to Coughlin, which completely undermines his
whole allegation that Coughlin Iailed to answer some grievance or respond to some
request Ior some response, etc....and who would have thought the word "several"
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would become so important: "several sev-er-uhl, sev-ruhl] 1. being more than
two but fewer than many in number or kind: several ways of doing it.... (source
www.dictionary.com)") King chose not to seek to admit his purported 3/16/12 letter
to Coughlin which may or may not have read (either way, deIinitely did not meet
his burden, King, to show some Iailure to answer or cooperate by Coughlin, by
"clear and convicing" evidence where King was so hemmed up by Coughlin's
approach that he was too aIraid oI his lies getting exposed to seek to admit any such
purported 3/16/12 letter to Coughlin, and instead, King had to take the perplexing
(to some, to be sure) tact oI seeking to admit only a letter Irom Judge Nash Holmes
to the SBN regarding Coughlin, which, oI course, begs the question, just how does
such a letter prompt any response Irom Coughlin? Simply put, one does not expect
Domino's to delivery them a pizza when they place a call to China Diner, right?
Real head scratcher that was..."uh, well, Panel, I, Pat King am seeking to admit this
letter to the SBN Irom Judge Nash Holmes as evidence oI Coughlin's Iailure to
respond to Judges letter to the SBN..." huh? Face it, Pat, you made your bed with
all your lies in overstating the vast multitude oI grievances and the army oI judges
you allegealy had at your disposal in your various early March-April 2012
communications, meeting, and correspondence with Coughlin...you went Ior the
group think intimidation play and it backIired on you spectacularly. This is
particularly true where such purported 3/16/12 letter Irom King, King would
necessarily be too aIraid to put into the record, where such reads: "The Office of
Bar Counsel has received several grievances concerning your conduct as a
lawyer. The grievances include supporting evidence ,,, and copies of pleadings
and documents prepared and filed by you in1ustice and District Court. ... I am
enclosing with this letter copies of a grievance letter, from the Municipal
Court and a copy of an Order from District Court. Please respond
to allegations pertaining to your conduct I will make available for your review
and inspection the supporting documents and audio recordings."
See how awkward seeking admission oI such a letter would be Ior King? First, he
wold have to explain his use oI the term "several", which would be especially
diIIicult aIter Judge Beesley testiIied that he didn't send any letter to the SBN
(grievance or otherwise) until "about six weeks" aIter the 3/15/12 hearing in NVB
10-05104 Coughlin appeared at minutes aIter the WCSO burglarized his home law
oIIice in connection with the summary eviction order Gayle Kern, Esq. Iraudulently
obtained just that morning in Rev12-374.
Then, King would need to explain why, where he is oIIering in writing to allow
Coughlin to "make available for your review and inspection the supporting
documents and audio recordings" Coughlin was theraIter aIIorded no such
opportunity to, one, obtain the audio recordings (or some oI them, at least)
until after three more months went by, whereupon King Iinally emailed Coughlin
the announcement on 6/25/12, that he would allow Coughlin to obtain some
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later, just three judicial days prior to the 11/14/12 Iormal disciplinary hearing. King
oI hard to argue that Coughlin Iailed to respond to this or that under those Iacts,
much less make a case Ior Iailing to cooperate with disciplinary authorities.
Then, King would really be smarting Irom the problems associated with his writing
"I am enclosing with this letter copies of a grievance letter, from the Municipal
Court and a copy of an Order from District Court" upon a close comparison oI
King's subsequent writings and statements (and King really, really does not want
there to be any, uh, evidence oI just what it was he said, exactly, to Coughlin during
the 3/26/12 appearance by Coughlin at the SBN to take King up on his oIIer to
allow "make available for your review and inspection the supporting documents
and audio recordings"), especially as to King's 4/2/12 email to Coughlin and the
statements therein indicating he received a "grievance" "Irom Judge Gardner" that
"relates to her "Order AIter Trial"...:
So, in his 4/2/12 email to Coughlin King's story is presented one way ("NG12-
0434 Zachary B. Coughlin, Esq. Bar No. 9473 (2005) 1udge Gardner You
have received the grievance Irom Mr. Hill and also the grievance Irom Judge
Holmes. The Grievance from 1udge Cardner relates to her ' Order After Trial
in the case of Ashwin 1oshi v Barti 1oshi, Case Number DV08-01168, wherein
she describes your conduct at pages 12 and 13." ) but by his 4/19/12 email to
Coughlin, aIter being caught in his lies and the stickiness oI the remarkably suspect
"receipt stamping" oI the alleged "grievance Irom Judge Gardner" (her) marked
3/15/12 (with the "5" in the "15" presenting in various interlineated iterations,
dubiously), while Judge Nash Holmes 3/14/12 grievance letter is marked as
received on "3/14/12"...) King admits: :You wanted to know how I learned of or
obtained a copy of 1udge Gardner`s Order after trial that was filed in 2009. It
was sent to me by the clerk of the court at my request, pursuant to my
investigation."
Because, then King would just look like a liar whom was asserting some sort oI
Canon 2 Rule 2.15 "appropriate action" collateral bar application as to the
allegations that anything Irom that DV08-01168 Joshi case supports any Iinding oI
proIessional conduct by Coughlin...its a much diIIerent animal when King actually
received that "Order AIter Trial" Irom the Joshi case Irom RMC Judge Nash
Holmes on 3/14/12, only Ior King to then Iraudulently aIIix a "received 3/15/12"
stamp on it, proceed to shuck and jive his way along, alluding to "several
grievances" Irom "at least three judges" (as King indicated during the 3/26/12
meeting with Coughlin, though reIusing to identiIy them by name, and quickly
storming oII with his "box oI materials", which King lied about at the 1/4/13 EPO
hearing, in attempting some lame "Coughlin was very Irightening to me, yikes"
approach). Further, its particularly messy when King is stuck admitting that he
received such Order AIter Trial by Judge L. Gardner Irom RMC Judge Nash
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Gardner wanted to Iile a grievance or pursue any Canon 2 Rule 2.15 "appropriate
action" then she should have done so herselI, but then again, she was pretty
hemmed up by her own 6/19/09 Final Decree subsuming her 4/13/09 Order AIter
Trial, especially where such Final Decree granted the very alimony she alleged
Coughlin was "vexatious" in arguing Ior...huh? Yeah.
"March 16, 2012 Sent Via U.S. Mail, CertiIied Mail and via E-Mail Zachary B.
Coughlin, Esq. 1422 E. Ninth Street, #2 reno, NV 89512 RE: Attorney Discipline
Dear Mr. Coughlin: The Office of Bar Counsel
has received several grievances concerning your conduct as a lawyer. The
grievances include supporting evidence in the form oI: audio of your conduct in
court proceedings and copies of pleadings and documents prepared and filed
by you in 1ustice and District Court. Together these grievances raise serious
questions regarding your competency and ability to practice law.
These concerns are serious and the OIIice oI Bar Counsel is considering the
necessity oI seeking a Petition to Determine Competency pursuant to Supreme
Court Rule 117. I am enclosing with this letter copies of a grievance letter, from
the Municipal Court and a copy of an Order from District Court. Please respond
to allegationspertaining to your conduct I will make available for your review and
inspection the supporting documents and audio recordings.
I have leIt phone messages and sent you an e-mail asking you to call me. As oI the
draIting oI this letter you have not called me. I would like to meet with you so that
we can discuss this important matter and see iI there is a way that we can help you
Again, please call me at your earliest opportunity. Sincerely, /s/ Patrick King
Assistant Bar Counsel"
"From Assistnat Bar Council, Patrick King? From: Patrick King
(PatrickKnvbar.org) This sender is in your saIe list. Sent: Tue 6/26/12 2:52 PM
To: zachcoughlinhotmail.com (zachcoughlinhotmail.com) Cc: David Clark
(DavidCnvbar.org) June 26, 2012 RE: Recordings oI Court proceedings
Dear Mr. Coughlin, I spoke with David Clark regarding your request that we
provide you with copies oI the CD discs oI Court proceedings. David Clark
authorized me to provide you with copies. Please let me know the address to use to
send you the copies. There is a total oI 5 disks. Patrick King, Assistant Bar
Counsel"
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(NOTE: interestingly, despite indicating in his 3/16/12 letter to Coughlin that he
would "make available for your review and inspection the supporting documents
and audio recordings" it was not until King's 6/25/12 email to Coughlin that he
indicated he would provide some oI the audio recordings, and it was not until three
judicial days beIore the 11/14/12 Iormal disciplinary hearing that King would
aIIord Coughlin any access to some 3,200 pages oI "materials" (especially suspect
in that such practice clearly violated SCR 105(2)(c), not to mention that, while
Coughlin was "constructively noticed" oI the "supplemental" designation oI NVB
Judge Beesley and Elcano as witnesses on the day before the hearing (ie,
11/13/12), such 3,200 pages contained not any "grievance" Irom Judge Beesley
(and, in Iact Beesley's testimony Iailed to indicate he Iiled any "grievance" against
Coughlin, and Iurther, the dating oI King's 3/16/12 correspondence to Coughlin,
which indicates that the "Office of Bar Counsel
has received several grievances concerning your conduct as a lawyer" contradicts
King's assertion that "several grievances" had been received where Judge Beesley
(even iI one considers any letter he claims to have sent the Bar some "six weeks"
aIter the 3/15/12 hearing in NVB 10-05104 held just minutes aIter Coughlin was
evicted at gunpoint by SheriII's whom had burglarized Coughlin's Iormer home law
oIIice in violating NRS 40.253(5)'s requirement that any eviction order be
"received" by the tenant Ior at least "24 hours" beIore any such lockout is
perIormed) clearly indicated in his testimony that he had not even contacted the bar
about Coughlin at such time, leaving only two "grievances" that the "OIIice oI Bar
Counsel" could have "received". This goes to the extent to which King is
compulsive liar. Consider the deIinition oI the word "several" then consider
whether Judge Nash Holmes (as she admitted she "probably" did) including 2JDC
Judge L. Gardner's 4/13/09 Order AIter Trial (FHE 3) with those "materials" she
provided to the SBN along with (and reIerenced in) her 3/14/12 "grievance"
amounts to "receiving" a "grievance" Irom either someone other than Judge Nash
Holmes (unless King wants to maintain some ridiculous argument that Judge Nash
Holmes Iiled two diIIerent grievances...bringing into Iocus the attempts by King to
obscure the Iact that 2JDC Judge L. Gardner reIused to Iile a grievance against
Coughlin with the SBN (providing Coughlin with the argument that her Iailure to
do so provides a collateral bar under Canon 2, Rule 2.15 in that the matter oI
whether Coughlin committed any proIessional misconduct suIIicient to required
2JDC Judge L. Gardner to take any oI the "appropriate action" identiIied in the
commentary to Rule 2.15 was, in essence, "actually litigated".
While King would like to assert that Judge Nash Holmes 2/28/12 Order Iinding
Coughlin to have violated a civil contempt statute (a plenary one, in NRS 22.100,
no less, despite her summary incarceration of Coughlin and application
thereof) somehow amounts to a "criminal conviction", or that such somehow
obviates the duty King has to Iile a Petition with the NSCT reporting such
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"conviction" under SCR 104(1)(d) and SCR 111(4) (and then wait Ior direction
Irom the court as to the jurisdiciton and NNDB Panel may or may not have to
pursue a disciplinary hearing), even where that so, such application would only
extend an SCR 111(5) "conviction is conclusive prooI oI guilt"
(nevermind Claiborne or SCR 114, apparently) as to the matter oI whether
Coughlin committed the "misdemeanor oI criminal contempt" (nevermind that ther
is an NRS Ior such (NRS 199.360, which Judge Nash Holmes, a longtime
prosecutor, Iailed to cite to and could not identiIy during her sworn testimony), n ot
as to whether Coughlin committed the multitude of violations of the various
RPC's that 1udge Aash Holmes alternatively mused that Coughlin "probably"
violated (SchaeIIer's "clear and convincing evidence" burden requires more than
the "preponderance oI the evidence" standard provided by Nash Holme's
assessment ("I think there is probably a question oI whether Mr. Coughlin violated
those Rules oI ProIessional Conduct" Holmes expounded on the record oI the
3/12/12 hearingin 26800), on the audio recording that Coughlin sought to introduce
into evidence (the RMC indicated such copy purchase by Coughlin (through his
mother given the RMC reIused to sell Coughlin one, natch) was "certiIied", while
King's arguing that it was somehow just to bring a grievance based upon the very
audio recordings he admits the RMC provided him that he argued were
"inadmissible" at the Iormal hearing it truly perplexing, to say nothing oI the Panel
Chair's ruling excluding such materials).
"FW: Mr Coughlin? From: Patrick King (PatrickKnvbar.org) This sender is in
your saIe list. Sent: Thu 8/30/12 1:46 PM To: zachcoughlinhotmail.com
(zachcoughlinhotmail.com) Attachments: 1 attachment Order (8-28-12).pdI
(147.4 KB) Good AIternoon Mr. Coughlin, Attached is an Order that pertains to
you. I have not yet received an answer to the Complaint that I Iiled against you.
Could you let me know when you expect to Iile an Answer? Thank you. Patrick
King" (NOTE: that 8/28/12 Order King attached was Judge Flanagan's in CV11-
03628, the one which
Hill demonstrates his own RPC 3.1, 3.3, and 3.4 violations where he Ialsely
characterizes the "reasons" Judge Flanagan provides Ior entering the attorney Iee
award oI 6/25/12 in CV11-03628 (FHE 2): "HEARING - Vol. I, (Pages 40:25 to
41:4) I have provided Mr. King with a copy of Judge Flanagan's orders in which
he sets Iorth the reasons Ior such an extraordinary award, being Mr. Coughlin's
behavior, and the quality oI the work that he was Iiling."
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Actually, as Hill and King (see King's inclusion oI such 8/28/12 Order in his
8/30/12 email to Coughlin) well know, Judge Flanagan's 8/21/12 and 8/28/12
Orders in 03628 clearly contradict Hill's assessment that Judge Flanagan's 6/25/12
Order in 03628 "sets for the the reasons for asuch and extraordinary award,
being Mr. Coughlin's behavior, and the qualiity of the work that he was
filing...". Rather, Judge Flanagan's 8/28/12 Order in 03628 makes clear:
"...Coughlin's Motions here attempts to re-litigate substantive issues this Court has
already decided, or frivolous claims this Court has previously ignored.."
"RE: citation to legal authority?? From: Patrick King (PatrickKnvbar.org) This
sender is in your saIe list. Sent: Tue 9/25/12 11:34 AM To: Zach Coughlin
(zachcoughlinhotmail.com) Cc: David Clark (DavidCnvbar.org); Laura Peters
(LauraPnvbar.org) 9-25-2012 Dear Mr. Coughlin, Please be advised that the
State Bar oI Nevada will not accept or file any documents submitted by you via e-
mail. Further, iI you intend to send or serve me with a copy oI a document it will
not be accepted iI sent via e-mail. Sincerely, Patrick King, Assistant Bar Counsel."
"RE: Motion to Dismiss SBN v. Coughlin? From: Laura Peters
(LauraPnvbar.org) This sender is in your saIe list. Sent: Wed 9/26/12 11:54 AM
To: 'Zach Coughlin' (zachcoughlinhotmail.com)
I never said that you could Iile items via e-mail I don`t make those calls. I have to
Iile documents in so you have to serve them here. I want to cooperate with you but
I can`t change the procedural requirements. - Laura"
Why the strange Iocus on email and silence as to Iiling by Iax, such is particularly
suspect given the Ilip Ilopping Clerk oI Court Peters did with respect to her
declaration that such was accepted on 9/11/11, on to change her tune upon Pat King
being inIormed by Coughlin on 10/7/12 that King had Iailed to Opposed Coughlin's
9/17/12 Motion to Dismiss (which would be a veriIied response, in contrast to the
"VeriIied Answer" King told Coughlin he was required to Iile in King's suspect
misstatement oI SCR 105:
"RE: Motion to Dismiss SBN v. Coughlin? From: Patrick King
(PatrickKnvbar.org) This sender is in your saIe list. Sent: Mon 9/24/12 3:10 PM
To: Zach Coughlin (zachcoughlinhotmail.com) Cc: David Clark
(DavidCnvbar.org) Dear Mr. Coughlin, You have an ongoing obligation to
cooperate with the State Bar. Your reIusal to provide the state bar with your present
address Ior service oI process is not acceptable. I understand you have a copy oI the
Complaint Iiled against you. You are required to Iile a veriIied Answer to the
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complaint. II you do not have a copy oI the complaint you may pick up a copy oI
the complaint at the Northern State Bar Center. II you reIuse or Iail to Iile an
Answer the matter may proceed against you on a deIault basis. II the matter
proceeds against you on a deIault basis, the allegation in the Compliant may be
accepted as true. I would encourage you to take this matter seriously. Sincerely,
Patrick King, Assistant Bar Counsel"
"RE: citation to legal authority?? From: Patrick King (PatrickKnvbar.org) This
sender is in your saIe list. Sent: Tue 9/25/12 10:49 AM To: Zach Coughlin
(zachcoughlinhotmail.com) Cc: David Clark (DavidCnvbar.org) September 25,
2012
Good Morning Mr. Coughlin, This morning you were served with the Disciplinary
Complaint, Ior Case No: NG12-0204, NG12-0435 and NG 12-0434. A veriIied
Response or Answer to this Complaint must be Iiled with the OIIice oI Bar
Counsel, State Bar oI Nevada, 9456 Double R. Blvd, Ste. B, Reno, Nevada 89521
within 20 days. The Procedure regarding service is addressed in SCR 109. 1he
reason I have requested your physical address is to facilitate our ability to contact
you. The mail that was sent to you via certiIied mail was returned to the State Bar
as unclaimed. Patrick King, Assistant Bar Counsel"
Again, the strange appearance (and non-service until a month aIter the Iact and
buried among some 3,200 other pages provided Coughlin just three judicial days
beIore the 11/14/12 Iormal disciplinary hearing, oI the 11/9/12 AIIidavit oI Laura
Peters is just too much considering Coughlin's 10/6/12 email to the SBN announced
the Iailure oI King to Iile an opposition to Coughlin's 9/17/12 Motion to Dismiss,
especially considering the incongruous placement oI such 10/9/12 AIIidavit oI
Laura Peters after the filings of 10/30/12 in the original version oI the hearing
pleadings Iile provide by the SBN...hmmmn
FW: motion to dismiss attached? From: Zach Coughlin
(zachcoughlinhotmail.com) Sent: Sat 10/06/12 4:36 AM To:
patrickknvbar.org; laurapnvbar.org; tsusichnvdetr.org Attachments: 1
attachment sbn v coughlin motion to dismiss.pdI (80.5 KB)
Dear Bar Counsel, Please note that the Motion to Dismiss that I filed in
SBA v. Coughlin, on September 17th, 212, has gone unopposed, and therefore,
should be granted...Mr. King was telling me the other day: "Zach, you don't take
responsibility Ior your actions and that is why things don't work out Ior you..." I
wonder, does Mr. King take responsibility Ior his actions here, or lack thereoI, in
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Iailing to oppose my Motion to Dismiss? It will be interesting to see. Sincerely,
Zach Coughlin PO BOX 3961 Reno, NV 89505 Tel 775 338 8118 Fax 949 667
7402 ZachCoughlinhotmail.com From: zachcoughlinhotmail.com To:
patrickknvbar.org; tsusichnvdetr.org Subject: motion to dismiss attached Date:
Mon, 17 Sep 2012 23:59:42 -0700 Zach Coughlin PO BOX 3961 Reno, NV 89505
Tel 775 338 8118 Fax 949 667 7402 ZachCoughlinhotmail.com
"RE: pending Iinal disposition oI disciplinary proceedings....language SCR 111(7)
versus SCR 111(8) and the June 7th, 2012 Order oI the NV. S. Ct.? From: Laura
Peters (LauraPnvbar.org) This sender is in your saIe list. Sent: Wed 10/10/12
6:01 PM To: Zach Coughlin (zachcoughlinhotmail.com)
Please don't put words in my mouth, Zach. You are the one that indicated that you
had not received the Complaint when we talked on the phone. Why, then, would I
Iile in a Motion to Dismiss? I am responsible Ior my own actions. - Laura (aka
Clerk Peters)"
Then Pat King the Iraud alleges at the 1/4/13 hearing to extent the TPO in RCP12-
607 that Coughlin was harassing just about everyone in trying to get a copy oI the
record/transcript oI the 11/14/12 disciplinary proceeding...only problem is, King
Iailed to answer any oI Coughlin's requests Ior such starting the day aIter the
hearing...despite his being required to under SCR 119. King Iinally responded to
Coughlin's requests one month later, aIter King was able to obtain an unIair
advantage in having the transcript ahead oI Coughlin:
"Transcript? From: Patrick King (PatrickKnvbar.org) This sender is in your saIe
list. Sent: Tue 12/18/12 3:07 PM To: zachcoughlinhotmail.com
(zachcoughlinhotmail.com) Cc: David Clark (DavidCnvbar.org) Attachments:
1 attachment Transcript receipt121812.pdI (41.8 KB) December 18, 2012 Good
AIternoon Mr. Coughlin, I am advised that you called the State Bar to ascertain
how you may obtain an oIIicial copy oI the transcript oI your disciplinary hearing.
David Clark asked me to respond to your request. While I cannot give you legal
advice, I can direct you to Supreme Court Rule 119. Pursuant to that rule, 'The
record oI a hearing shall be made available to the attorney at the attorney`s expense
on request made to bar counsel. See SCR 119 1. I have asked Sunshine Reporters
to provide me with the amount it will cost to purchase a copy oI the transcript. The
cost oI the transcript is $2,518.20. You may purchase a copy of the transcript
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directly from Sunshine Reporting. A copy oI the invoice that Sunshine sent us is
attached. Patrick King, Assistant Bar Counsel"
So King argues Ior a Workplace Harassment TPO/EPO based on his non-sequitur
allegation that Coughlin "called the court reporter" seeking a transcript (which King
alleged somehow "Irightened" her), only Ior King to then write Coughlin and direct
him to seek any purchase oI a copy oI the transcript directly through that very
Iirm...
Such is similar to King's ridiculous act oI sending Coughlin a letter demanding that
he call the SBN ahead 15 minutes to announce iI he would be appearing to Iile a
document, then alleging Coughlin scared him and the SBN so bad by doing just
that, calling ahead and announcing he would be there shortly to do so.
"RE: pending Iinal disposition oI disciplinary proceedings....language SCR 111(7)
versus SCR 111(8) and the June 7th, 2012 Order oI the NV. S. Ct.? From: Patrick
King (PatrickKnvbar.org) This sender is in your saIe list. Sent: Wed 10/10/12
9:44 AM To: Zach Coughlin (zachcoughlinhotmail.com) Cc: David Clark
(DavidCnvbar.org)
Dear Mr. Coughlin, When you met with me and David Clark to discuss the
Complaint and the process. Mr. Clark explained that since there was a conviction,
'the sole issue to be determined was the extent oI the discipline. Not iI you
committed the crime, since that was already determined beyond a reasonable
doubt. It is that context that we are reading the rule. Not that the state bar is
precluded Irom bringing additional allegations against you. Any additional
allegations that have not already resulted in criminal convictions will need to be
proved by 'clear and convincing evidence. As such, at the hearing, on the issue oI
your criminal convictions, the only issue Ior the panel to decide is the appropriate
discipline. However, I will be providing evidence as to the other allegations in the
Complaint. The Panel will decide iI the state bar has met its burden oI prooI as to
those allegations in the complaint, other than the criminal convictions, and will
decide the appropriate discipline on the totality oI the case, including mitigating
and aggravating Iactors that may be presented at the hearing. As such, I do not
intend bifurcate these proceedings. I think to do so would cause unnecessary
conIusion, undue time and expense and would be prejudicial to the administration
oI justice. I am advised that you have not yet Iiled an Answer to the Complaint. I
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have sent you a notice oI intent to proceed on a deIault basis. The hearing date is
expected to be Wednesday November 14, 2012. I will be sending you a notice oI
hearing, along with a list oI witness, and evidence that I intend to introduce at the
hearing. Patrick King, Assistant Bar Counsel."
King thinks he makes the ruling on whether to biIurcate or not, and, in reality, he
probably does given the slapdash justice provided by the NNDB.
And soon, King would drop his more accurate recounting oI the burden and extent
to which an criminal convictions could provide preclusive eIIect as to the various
other allegations, and adopt the more Iraudulent approach oI Panel Chair
Echeverria:
"HEARING - Vol. I, (Pages 72:23 to 75:5) "MR. KING: Mr. Chairman, iI I could
respond by pointing out the Iact that the order Irom Judge Flanagan, which has
been admitted, suggests that that was -- that those Iees were generatedbecause
of Mr. Coughlin's vexatious conduct. And that the Iees were reasonable and were
awarded against Mr. Coughlin, not one cent oI which has been paid. So I think any
suggestion to the contrary is irrelevant, because 1udge Flanagan's order is to be
accepted by the panel. MR. COUGHLIN: ...I don't know that's actually pled in
your complaint, Mr. King, or included amongst one of the three grievances. ...
Am I here today on Judge Flanagan's sanction? Is he a grievant and accorded a
case number too? ... MR. ECHEVERRIA: I believe you're here today to
measure all of your conduct as a practicing lawyer. ... MR. COUGHLIN:
So we're not here today based on what's been noticed? MR. ECHEVERRIA:
We're not here today to relitigate orders that have been Iiled that you have
appealed, and that you have lost. MR. COUGHLIN: ... I'm asking what is it limited
to? Because it sounds like from what you just said it's not limited. MR.
ECHEVERRIA: I don't intend to impose any limits on you in terms oI what you
attempt to proIIer as evidence. I will rule on what you proIIer as evidence. MR.
COUGHLIN: I'm saying what he's limited to, your Honor. MR. ECHEVERRIA:
The issue here, sir, as I understand the supreme court's order with respect to your
conviction oI theIt, and the issues here with respect to the other grievances that
have been Iiled against you are to the extent as to what, iI any, should be the
punishment that you should sustain as a result oI your conduct. MR. COUGHLIN:
Yet this is entered into evidence. MR. ECHEVERRIA: This is what? MR.
COUGHLIN: This order has been entered into evidence. MR. ECHEVERRIA:
Exhibit 2 has. MR. COUGHLIN: But it's not pled in any complaint. Judge
Flanagan's not a grievant. I wasn't noticed that that was the purpose oI this hearing
to some extent today. MR. ECHEVERRIA: You were noticed that the issue oI your
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conviction oI trespass was an issue, that your handling oI that case was an issue,
and it's relevant as to that."
HEARING - Vol. I, (Page 71:10 to 71:18) MR. ECHEVERRIA: I believe the issue
that this panel has to determine is what the degree, iI any, oI punishment should be
Ior the conduct that you have alleged to have been involved with, in terms oI
candor to the court, candor to counsel, candor to witnesses, competency to practice
law. MR. COUGHLIN: Including -- MR. ECHEVERRIA: I believe those are the
issues that this panel should Iocus on.
HEARING - Vol. I, (Pages 235:7 to 241:15) MR. ECHEVERRIA: You've already
proIIered that. I've sustained the objection. MR. COUGHLIN: I'd like to play a
copy oI a video I took oI Sergeant Lopez admitting certain things with respect to
the criminal trespass. MR. ECHEVERRIA: Mr. King? MR. KING: I would object
to the extent that Mr. Coughlin is trying to suggest in any way that he wasn't guilty
oI the criminal trespass, because he was convicted and exhausted his appeal rights.
And to retry that I think shouldn't occur here. MR. ECHEVERRIA: The relevance
oI this -- MR. KING: To the eIIect he wants to produce it Ior some other reason, I
think he would need to explain speciIically what that reason is. II it goes to whether
or not he's guilty oI a criminal trespass, I would say it's not relevant. MR.
ECHEVERRIA: And your relevance, Mr. Coughlin? MR. COUGHLIN: I would
like to give you the 30-minute notice that I would like to cross-examine Judge Nash
Holmes and Richard Hill or call them in my case in chieI, rather. I'll do that now. I
note that I have a time oI 2:55. MR. ECHEVERRIA: Right now we're dealing with
the relevancy oI a videotape that you claim to have taken. And how is that relevant?
MR. COUGHLIN: Because it goes to rebut everything that you deem relevant to
which Richard Hill testiIied. MR. ECHEVERRIA: Everything? MR. COUGHLIN:
Yeah. MR. ECHEVERRIA: What is contained in this proIIered video? MR.
COUGHLIN: There's a couple oI them. There's video oI the arrest, the trespass
arrest. The discussion between myselI and Richard Hill, and his client, and the
police oIIicers. Then -- and that was -- and then there is a video oI a couple months
later oI me interviewing Sergeant Lopez about whether or not they identiIied
themselves as police oIIicers beIore the door was kicked in, or whether they issued
a lawIul warning to leave. MR. ECHEVERRIA: Those are relevant to what issue
that this panel is to determine? MR. COUGHLIN: You listened to Richard Hill go
on and on about what he thinks about me and my candor and competency. And
these videos show he's a Iricking liar. Then it bears on the legitimacy oI his
testimony. MR. ECHEVERRIA: I asked you to speciIically address what portion
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oI his testimony this addressed. You said everything? MR. COUGHLIN: Yeah.
MR. ECHEVERRIA: He also testiIied to us how long he's been practicing law.
Does this video impeach that? MR. COUGHLIN: It impeaches the extent to which
putting a number oI years behind how long somebody has been practicing law
somehow is determinative oI anything or bearing some sort oI indication oI the
legitimacy or competency or Iidelity to the principle that this Bar is supposed to
uphold, but which some people might say it doesn't seem as to a lot oI the time.
MR. ECHEVERRIA: Anything else? MR. COUGHLIN: It also goes to
mitigation, I think. MR. ECHEVERRIA: How so? MR. COUGHLIN: I think it
places me in a lot more sympathetic light to the extent that it shows police
misconduct. MR. ECHEVERRIA: Mr. King? MR. KING: Mr. Chairman, there
has been a multitude oI videos taken by Mr. Coughlin. Some you might recall when
he was in his bedroom in his pajamas, and he was talking about things like Mr. Hill
taking bribes. He posted inIormation about court personnel, their salaries, et cetera.
Those, all oI those YouTube, have been taken oII oI YouTube by Mr. Coughlin so
they cannot be accessed. I have viewed a videotape oI Mr. Coughlin and the 9-1-1
calls where every other word out oI his mouth is starting with F-you to the police
oIIicers. MR. COUGHLIN: Objection. Lack oI Ioundation. MR. KING: However,
it's not admitted in this case -- MR. ECHEVERRIA: Excuse me. Mr. Coughlin,
I've tried to be very patient in terms oI your interruptions. You continue to do so.
Can you Iind it within yourselI to reIrain Irom doing that? You will have every
opportunity to respond. But I do not appreciate your continuing interruptions oI
virtually every person that speaks, including your mother. So please reIrain Irom
doing it. Proceed, Mr. King. MR. KING: In review oI some oI the excerpted
videos that Mr. Coughlin submitted to me, they are cut, and I don't know the word,
because I can't do it, I'm not an editor, but they're not complete, they don't show the
story. And I suspect that whatever he's going to show you would put him in a more
sympathetic light, because I suspect he's taken out all oI the derogatory things he
said to the police oIIicers. More important, those were not part oI my case against
Mr. Coughlin. I did not allege in the complaint that he abused the police oIIicers, or
resisted arrest, or used proIanity with the police oIIicers. I said he was convicted oI
theIt, convicted oI criminal trespass, and has demonstrated here a pattern oI
contempt Ior the court, and a lack oI ability to practice law. What Mr. Coughlin is
attempting to do is to steer you back to whether or not he was guilty oI the crimes
oI which he was convicted, and to show you that perhaps somebody within the
arrest process either did or didn't Iollow all oI their procedures, which are irrelevant
to this proceeding. And so I would just say that because the video excerpts that he
intends to play are suspect, and there's nobody to testiIy that they're the complete or
accurate videos other than Mr. Coughlin himselI. I think they're irrelevant, and in
this case would be highly prejudicial, plus a waste oI time. MR. ECHEVERRIA:
Anything Iurther? MR. COUGHLIN: Your Honor, iI I could just enter Ior the
record. Mr. Johnson's been on his smart phone throughout this proceeding. I mean
you no disrespect, sir. Maybe he doesn't Ieel much oI a connection to what's going
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on here today. And I would indicate that to the extent that this is presented as a
panel, and somehow some sort oI consensus thereby suggested, I would just enter
Ior the record, Mr. Johnson does not seem to Iind much oI a consensus being Iound
here today. So much so that he's been on his smart phone throughout this
proceeding. And I'm just going notate that Ior the record. MR. KING: II I can
respond brieIly. MR. ECHEVERRIA: So Iar you've attacked me. Now you've
attacked Mr. Johnson. Do you wish to attack any other panel member? MR.
COUGHLIN: I do not Iind that I've attacked anybody, sir. I Iind that I've
demonstrated my Iidelity to Iundamental notions oI due process and Iair play. MR.
ECHEVERRIA: Let's return to the video that you claim to have taken that you
now intend to proIIer. Is it a video oI your arrest that ultimately led to your
conviction Ior criminal trespass? MR. COUGHLIN: Not the one oI the admission
by Sergeant Lopez. MR. ECHEVERRIA: What is it that you intend to play oI
Sergeant Lopez? MR. COUGHLIN: A video where I'm asking her some stuII
about police misconduct. MR. ECHEVERRIA: Police misconduct. That's not an
issue here. MR. COUGHLIN: Incident to the Richard Hill deal. MR.
ECHEVERRIA: I'll rule it as irrelevant. Proceed. MR. COUGHLIN: Okay. Can I
play a video where, incident to t
HEARING - Vol. I, (Pages 241:14 to 243:2) MR. COUGHLIN: Okay. Can I play a
video where, incident to the Walmart conviction, it shows that I did give my
driver's license to the oIIicer, the tribal oIIicer, and that given that his testimony at
trial was that the only reason he was allowed to eIIectuate an arrest was my lack oI
giving him my driver's license. MR. ECHEVERRIA: That is not an issue Ior this
panel to determine. The supreme court speciIically directed that the only issues
with respect to that conviction was the nature and extent oI punishment. We're not
going to relitigate your conviction Ior theIt. MR. COUGHLIN: So the -- MR.
ECHEVERRIA: Next, Mr. Coughlin. MR. COUGHLIN: Can I enter my
objection? MR. ECHEVERRIA: Pardon? MR. COUGHLIN: Can I enter my
objection or basis Ior my objection? MR. ECHEVERRIA: Basis Ior your objection
to your own? MR. COUGHLIN: Wanting to put that in an oIIer oI prooI, I guess.
Something like that. Have you read the Claiborne case? MR. ECHEVERRIA: Yes.
MR. COUGHLIN: Does that have any applicability here? MR. ECHEVERRIA:
I'm governed by the case that the supreme court decided with respect to Zachary
Barker Coughlin in which they tell us that the only issue that this panel is to
determine is what the nature and extent oI the punishment is Ilowing Irom your
conviction Ior theIt. We're not to address the underlying issues involving that
conviction. MR. COUGHLIN: How are you addressing so many issues completely
divorced Irom that Walmart theIt case? How did you do that today? MR.
ECHEVERRIA: Mr. Coughlin, I'm dealing with one issue at a time. You have
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proIIered a videotape that the supreme court tells us is not relevant. Proceed with
your next witness.
HEARING - Vol. I, (Pages 224:15 to 225:11) MR. ECHEVERRIA: However you
think you need to lay a Ioundation. MR. COUGHLIN: Mr. King, he can't lay the
Ioundation? He was provided these by the muni court. MR. ECHEVERRIA: This
is your case, sir. MR. COUGHLIN: Can I call Pat King and say, Pat, were you
provided these copies oI the audio? Everything is a copy, okay, it's not -- MR.
ECHEVERRIA: What's the oIIer oI prooI? What are you intending to prove? MR.
COUGHLIN: To show she is so reckless. To show a lot oI things. But one, this
idea that a conviction is completely dispositive, he cited no authority Ior that. MR.
ECHEVERRIA: Mr. Coughlin, the supreme court issued an order in your case that
says with respect to, in essence, a conviction, that the sole issue to be determined
here is the nature and extent oI the punishment. MR. COUGHLIN: But that's the
candy bar thing. You guys made a hearing about 30 other things.
Tennessee Bar Ass`n v. Berke, 48 Tenn.App. 140 (1960) 344 S.W.2d 567"This
March 22, 1960, at Chambers in Cookeville, Tennessee.`|1| |2| |3| The record
sustains the Special Chancellor`s decree and it is aIIirmed. However, there are two
legal propositions in connection with this appeal which we should like to discuss
brieIly. The Iirst is, that it is not the rule that an opinion oI a chancellor, or oI this
Court, or a decree thereon, any more than a judgment oI the Circuit Court in a civil
matter as distinguished Irom one criminal in nature, in a suit not brought to disbar
an attorney, has *147 the eIIect oI estopping a lawyer in a subsequent disbarment
proceeding so as to prevent the introduction oI any prooI therein contrary to the
opinion and decree. The rule is that records,that is pleadings and prooI in cases in
which an attorney appeared either as an attorney or as a partycan be oIIered in
evidence to the extent they are relevant to the issue oI Iitness to practice, but that
such records and judgments are not res judicata and do not necessarily work an
estoppel in a subsequent disbarment suit.

The law on this subject is best discussed in the case oI In re Santosuosso, 318 Mass.
489, 62 N.E.2d 105, 107, 161 A.L.R. 892. In that case which was an inquiry into
certain alleged misconduct oI Santosuosso, an attorney, upon a petition oI the Bar
Association oI the City oI Boston, the petitioner oIIered in evidence the entire
printed record in the Iiles oI the clerk oI the Supreme Judicial Court Ior the
Commonwealth oI Massachusetts in a civil case in equity in which Santosuosso had
been a deIendant, and the Iindings and order in the case. Santosuosso objected that
the evidence was not admissible under the doctrine oI res adjudicata and also that
apart Irom the doctrine oI res adjudicata, the statements made by a judge in his
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Iindings and decree were not admissible as evidence. In holding that the paramount
considerations supporting proceedings to investigate the worthiness oI members oI
the bar to practice law could not be deIeated by the application oI strict rules oI
evidence governing the trial oI adversary proceedings between parties, and that the
necessity Ior the preservation oI the integrity oI the courts and the saIety oI the
public rises above strictly technical rules oI evidence that govern such adversary
proceedings between parties, the court said:
*148 We are oI opinion that the evidence contained in the record oIIered by
counsel designated by the court to conduct the proceeding, that is, the evidence
adduced at the hearing in the Superior Court oI the equity suit in question, at which
the respondent, a party thereto, was present and represented by counsel, testiIied
and had Iull opportunity to present and examine witnesses and to cross-examine
those called by the plaintiII, is admissible in the present inquiry. See State ex rel.
Nebraska State Bar Ass`n v. Gudmundsen, |145| Neb. |324|, 16 N.W.2d 474. We
reach this conclusion without dependence upon such cases as Selling v. RadIord,
243 U.S. 46, 37 S.Ct. 377, 61 L.Ed. 585, Ann.Cas.1917D, 569, and Matter oI
Ulmer, 268 Mass. 373, 167 N.E. 749, in each oI which a judgment oI disbarment in
another judisdiction was held to settle the issue that the attorney in question was
unIit to practice. We are unwilling to attach such conclusive eIIect to a judgment at
law or a Iinal decree in equity, based upon alleged corrupt conduct on the part oI a
deIendant attorney, where the judgment or Iinal decree entered rests upon Iindings
that the attorney has been guilty oI corrupt conduct. * * * we are oI opinion that the
evidence in the proceeding in equity in question is admissible in an inquiry such as
the present, and like any other evidence is to be given such weight as the single
justice shall deem proper, when considered together with all other evidence that the
respondent may produce **571 at the hearing, in the course oI which he must be
heard with Iull opportunity to present all relevant evidence that he may wish to
adduce.
*149 The Ioregoing view Iinds support in such cases as In re Lacy, 234 Mo.App.
71, 112 S.W.2d 594; In re Pate, 232 Mo.App. 478, 119 S.W.2d 11; State ex rel.
Nebraska State Bar Ass`n v. Gudmundsen, 145 Neb. 324, 16 N.W.2d 474; Werner
v. State Bar, 24 Cal.2d 611, 150 P.2d 892, and FairIield County Bar v. Taylor, 60
Conn. 11, 22 A. 441, 13 L.R.A. 767. See also Matter oI Becker, 229 App.Div. 62,
6566, 241 N.Y.S. 369; Id., 255 N.Y. |223| 233, 174 N.E. 461; Wigmore on
Evidence, 3d ed. 4(7). In the Gudmundsen Case the court, aIter stating that there
had been some doubt as to the admission oI evidence such as that oIIered in the
present proceeding, said: It is thought, however, that this question should no longer
remain in doubt. It is thereIore the holding oI this court that the Iinding in a civil
action that an attorney at law has been guilty oI conduct justiIying disbarment is not
conclusive on the same question when presented Ior determination in an action Ior
disbarment; that notwithstanding the Iinding in the civil action the culpability oI the
attorney must be established in the disbarment action by a clear preponderance oI
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the evidence. For this purpose the evidence taken at the trial oI the civil action and
all other competent evidence is admissible` (page 476 oI 16 N.W.2d).`

Other cases holding, in general, to this same eIIect are: In re Berkeley, 174
App.Div. 205, 160 N.Y.S. 1093; In re Bailey, 31 Ariz. 407, 254 P. 481; FairIield
County Bar v. Taylor, 60 Conn. 11, 22 A. 441; In re Durant, 80 Conn. 140, 67 A.
497; State ex rel. Nebraska State Bar Association v. Gudmundsen, 145 Neb. 324,
16 N.W.2d 474; Metropolitan Street R. Co. v. Oppenheim, 58 App.Div. 510, 69
N.Y.S. 524.
*150 State v. Bomer, 179 Tenn. 67, 162 S.W.2d 515, supports this view. This was a
proceeding against Bomer Ior his disbarment on the ground he had instituted prior
disbarment proceedings in Chancery Court against two attorneys Ior no just reason
and without any probable cause, being actuated by motives oI personal hatred and
ill will, and had thus abused the court`s process as a means oI carrying out his
desire Ior personal vengeance. Upon Bomer`s objection to the introduction oI the
decrees oI the Chancery Court in the suits which he had Iiled against the two
attorneys (which decrees recited the suits were without merit), our Supreme Court
said that such decrees could be received in evidence, not as conclusive prooI oI the
charges against Bomer, but only as evidence in the case, to show the result oI the
prior trials, and in that case the recitation in the decrees that the suits were without
merit, was not taken as Ioreclosing that issue to Bomer and other prooI in regard
thereto was oIIered by him and heard.
|4| |5| The second proposition upon which we should like to comment is with
respect to the application oI the doctrine oI laches to this case. The doctrine oI
laches may be applicable in a disbarment proceeding and the Special Chancellor
could very well have predicated his opinion and decree in good part thereon. The
incident out oI which this disbarment proceeding arose occurred in 1950. It was
Iully investigated by the Chattanooga Bar Association in that year with the result
that that Association recommended that no disciplinary action be taken against
Berke. The petitioner had immediate notice oI the incident and caused investigation
to be made oI it. However, no court action was taken against Berke until the
commencement oI these proceedings in 1959, nine years aIter *151 the incident.
We think such long delay, unexplained as it is in this record, coupled with prooI
that witnesses have died or otherwise have become unavailable, constitutes laches
(Gibson`s Suits in Chancery, 5th Ed. 81) and was a ground Ior **572 dismissal oI
the petition. In 7 C.J.S. Attorney and Client, 25b, it is stated Staleness in a
charge against an attorney may prevent its being considered, because an
unreasonable delay in the presentation oI a charge oI misconduct may make it
impossible Ior an attorney to procure the witnesses or the testimony which would
have been available at an earlier time to meet such charge.` That is the condition
here. The gravity oI the charges demanded that they be examined Iully at the Iirst
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opportunity. That this was not done does not appear to have been the Iault oI Berke,
who oIIered to appear beIore the petitioner and submit to an investigation. Nor,
does it appear the delay has been to his beneIit but rather, strongly, to his detriment.
Moreover, it appears that in the nine year period Berke has not transgressed against
the ethics or the morals oI the legal proIession, but to the contrary sustains a good
reputation as a lawyer. In such case, the doctrine oI laches was
applicable." Tennessee Bar Ass`n v. Berke, 48 Tenn.App. 140 (1960) 344 S.W.2d
567
Perhaps the best example oI the Iraud that is Panel Chair Echeverria is his allowing
Paul Elcano to "lay a Ioundation" Ior the alleged copy oI Judge L. Gardner's Order
AIter Trial, aIter King got caught lying about whether or not he had a certiIied
copy, in comparison to Echeverria's ridiculously over the top evidentiary rulings on
anything and everything Coughlin sought to admit, particulary where the audio
transcripts oI the traIIic citation trial were so clearly relevant to that which Chair
Echeverria was determined to avoid having any Iact Iinding done one (as, clearly
Echeverria was intent on skipping past the part oI due process where the Panel
takes evidence and testimony as to whether Coughlin, say, violated the multitude oI
RPC's that King's Complaint does not really indicate just upon what and beIore
whom such alleged conduct occurred (heavy on the Judges Holmes, Howard, and
L. Gardner Orders as a proxy Ior "conclusive prooI oI a "conviction" or "violation"
oI every RPC under the sun)). So, Echeverria, the ol' knuckballer junk artist that he
so clearly is, simply wasted everyone's time (and their reputations) by rendering the
entire hearing useless in ruling inadmissible the transcripts oI the various trials and
hearings (and Coughlin provided the transcripts Ior all oI the matters at issue,
including the dates beIore Judges Holmes, Howard, and L. Gardner upon which the
entirety oI the non-criminal conviction aspects oI King's 8/23/12 Complaint rested)
Ior "lack oI Ioundation", a ruling made all the more outrageous given the treatment
Echeverria gave his "boyhood chum" Paul Elcano when King sought to have
Elcano provide just such a "Ioundation" Ior the admission oI Elcano's good Iriend,
Judge L. Gardner's, Order AIter Trial:
HEARING - Vol. I, (Pages 228:2 to 241:12) DIRECT EXAMINATION BY MR.
COUGHLIN: Q Mom, did you have to buy an audio oI the trial with that Judge
Nash Holmes? A Did I have to buy an audio? Q Yeah. Did you buy a copy oI the
proceeding? A Yes. Q Did you give it to me? A Oh, God. I think so. I did
several things. I paid $100 Ior something -- no, that was something else. Q Right.
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money anyway? A Yes. And the man that I gave the money to told me that you
would be released within several hours, and you weren't. Q They did the old
switcheroo, right? A I'm sorry? MR. ECHEVERRIA: Mr. Coughlin, I would
appreciate it iI you would reIrain Irom interrupting even your own mother. THE
WITNESS: Especially his own mother. MR. COUGHLIN: Is that good enough?
MR. ECHEVERRIA: No. BY MR. COUGHLIN: Q Mom, was it an oIIicial
copy? A I don't know. Q Did you go to the court and say I want a copy oI the
proceeding, and you paid the money they asked you to pay? A I don't know that it
was oIIicial or not. But I requested a copy, yes. I would assume it would be oIIicial.
I was requesting it in the courthouse. Q And you Iilled out whatever Iorm it was
they made you Iill out, and paid whatever money it was they wanted right? A Yes.
MR. COUGHLIN: I would like to move to admit that into evidence. MR.
ECHEVERRIA: Do you have any Iurther questions? BY MR. COUGHLIN: Q
Mom, you paid $100 bail, and the muni court kept the money but didn't let me out?
A Yes. Q What did that Tom guy, the counter clerk, say about that? A When I
went back on Monday, he said, no, he should have been released. And I said, well,
he wasn't, and I would like to get my money back. And he made a phone call. And
he said, I'm sorry, but that's not possible. Q Did he say that she had done
something wrong? A No. No, he didn't say anything to me like that. He just said it
was not what he expected. When I went down there and paid the hundred dollars,
he said you would be out within three hours. And that didn't happen. And I believe
that was on a Thursday. The courts were closed Friday, so I went back on Monday
to Iind out why you weren't released, and to see iI I could get my hundred dollars
back. Q Did my dad say the State Bar oI Nevada's Coe Swobe kept hounding him,
calling him up, trying to lean on me so Washoe Legal Services and Paul Elcano
could get out -- A I'm sorry, I could not hear that. Q Did my dad ever tell you
that the State Bar oI Nevada's Coe Swobe called him up trying to get him to make
me settle easier with Washoe Legal Services whose director is Iriends with the
chairman here, close childhood Iriends, they both went to StanIord together, 1966?
MR. KING: Objection, hearsay. THE WITNESS: Your Iather told me -- MR.
ECHEVERRIA: Sustained. THE WITNESS: -- yes, they wanted you to settle.
MR. ECHEVERRIA: Excuse me, Ms. Barker. There was an objection made to the
question. I'm sustaining the objection. It's also argumentative. MR. COUGHLIN:
Mom. I don't want to take up any more oI your time, sweetheart. You have better
things to do. I'm going to let you go. Okay? THE WITNESS: All right. Sorry this
wasn't clear, but now I'm in the parking lot. MR. COUGHLIN: You're the clearest
thing I've heard today, Mom. THE WITNESS: Good luck. MR. ECHEVERRIA:
Any questions, Mr. King? Well, she hung up. MR. KING: I have no questions oI
the mother, but I would think it was patently clear when the direct question was, did
you give me the oIIicial copies, she said I don't know. And that's how it was leIt.
And Mr. Coughlin does not have the oIIicial copies which would be identiIied on
the disk by the court as an oIIicial copy. Since he does not have them or they are --
whatever he has downloaded on the record may not be the oIIicial one, I would still
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object. Plus, as I said beIore, since he's attempting to prove negatives that this
wasn't said, this wasn't done. Without the ability to read the transcript or see on
either side the context oI listening to a little blurb totally out oI context is going to
provide no relevant inIormation to you, because there's no way you can say with a
certainty that's the end oI the story. Because elsewhere in the transcript it could be
made crystal clear. I would suggest that Mr. Coughlin's eIIorts to have you listen to
excerpts, aside Irom being very time-consuming, is irrelevant. MR.
ECHEVERRIA: Anything Iurther to oIIer in terms oI laying a Ioundation? MR.
COUGHLIN: Penalty oI perjury, I'm going to play an oIIicial copy oI it. MR.
ECHEVERRIA: No. MR. COUGHLIN: I've given you the opportunity to go
review the stuII to your heart's content iI I'm lying. MR. ECHEVERRIA: Playing it
doesn't lay a Ioundation. We need a Ioundation laid. MR. COUGHLIN:
Foundation is -- MR. ECHEVERRIA: Do you have anything Iurther to oIIer? MR.
COUGHLIN: -- I, Zach Coughlin, under penalty oI perjury, this is the oIIicial
transcript, audio transcript. MR. ECHEVERRIA: What do you base that on? MR.
COUGHLIN: That the court gave it to us. MR. ECHEVERRIA: No, the court
didn't. MR. COUGHLIN: This is just amazing. Okay. Let's move on. MR.
ECHEVERRIA: We need to comply -- MR. COUGHLIN: I would like to play a
video I can provide a Ioundation oI, because I Iilmed it. MR. ECHEVERRIA:
We're dealing with whatever it was you were going to proIIer with respect to the
traIIic citation. MR. COUGHLIN: We have eaten up 40 percent oI my time with
this. You wouldn't let me play a copy oI an audio tape that I paid money Ior Irom
the court. MR. ECHEVERRIA: But you haven't laid a Ioundation Ior it, Mr.
Coughlin. That's what you don't understand. Your mother said she went and bought
something. She doesn't know iI it's an oIIicial transcript. You didn't establish
whether she gave it to you or not -- MR. COUGHLIN: I got an oIIicial one Irom
Pat King. MR. ECHEVERRIA: More important, sir, you haven't established what
you're about to play is what she bought. MR. COUGHLIN: II we just move on
Irom hers. I got an oIIicial copy Irom Pat King aIter we paid Ior it with our money
-- MR. ECHEVERRIA: That's not a Ioundation, sir. MR. COUGHLIN: I'm
saying I got it Irom the State Bar oI Nevada. Directly Irom Pat King. MR.
ECHEVERRIA: That's not a Ioundation. MR. COUGHLIN: In that Mr. King told
me it's an oIIicial copy Irom the Reno Muni Court. MR. KING: Absolutely not
true, Mr. Coughlin -- MR. COUGHLIN: You are testiIying now, Pat. I'd like him
sworn iI he's going to testiIy. MR. KING: I'd be happy to be sworn. And that's a
lie. MR. ECHEVERRIA: Mr. Coughlin, laying a Ioundation is a rather
rudimentary procedure. MR. KING: Sorry. MR. ECHEVERRIA: I do not believe
you have laid a proper Ioundation -- MR. COUGHLIN: I'll move on. MR.
ECHEVERRIA: -- proper to play. So I'm sustaining the objection to playing
whatever it was you're going to play, and proceed. MR. COUGHLIN: Okay. I'd
like to play an oIIicial copy oI the transcript Irom that Reno Muni Court traIIic
citation case. MR. ECHEVERRIA: You've already proIIered that. I've sustained
the objection. MR. COUGHLIN: I'd like to play a copy oI a video I took oI
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Sergeant Lopez admitting certain things with respect to the criminal trespass. MR.
ECHEVERRIA: Mr. King? MR. KING: I would object to the extent that Mr.
Coughlin is trying to suggest in any way that he wasn't guilty oI the criminal
trespass, because he was convicted and exhausted his appeal rights. And to retry
that I think shouldn't occur here. MR. ECHEVERRIA: The relevance oI this --
MR. KING: To the eIIect he wants to produce it Ior some other reason, I think he
would need to explain speciIically what that reason is. II it goes to whether or not
he's guilty oI a criminal trespass, I would say it's not relevant. MR. ECHEVERRIA:
And your relevance, Mr. Coughlin? MR. COUGHLIN: I would like to give you
the 30-minute notice that I would like to cross-examine Judge Nash Holmes and
Richard Hill or call them in my case in chieI, rather. I'll do that now. I note that I
have a time oI 2:55. MR. ECHEVERRIA: Right now we're dealing with the
relevancy oI a videotape that you claim to have taken. And how is that relevant?
MR. COUGHLIN: Because it goes to rebut everything that you deem relevant to
which Richard Hill testiIied. MR. ECHEVERRIA: Everything? MR. COUGHLIN:
Yeah. MR. ECHEVERRIA: What is contained in this proIIered video? MR.
COUGHLIN: There's a couple oI them. There's video oI the arrest, the trespass
arrest. The discussion between myselI and Richard Hill, and his client, and the
police oIIicers. Then -- and that was -- and then there is a video oI a couple months
later oI me interviewing Sergeant Lopez about whether or not they identiIied
themselves as police oIIicers beIore the door was kicked in, or whether they issued
a lawIul warning to leave. MR. ECHEVERRIA: Those are relevant to what issue
that this panel is to determine? MR. COUGHLIN: You listened to Richard Hill go
on and on about what he thinks about me and my candor and competency. And
these videos show he's a Iricking liar. Then it bears on the legitimacy oI his
testimony. MR. ECHEVERRIA: I asked you to speciIically address what portion
oI his testimony this addressed. You said everything? MR. COUGHLIN: Yeah.
MR. ECHEVERRIA: He also testiIied to us how long he's been practicing law.
Does this video impeach that? MR. COUGHLIN: It impeaches the extent to which
putting a number oI years behind how long somebody has been practicing law
somehow is determinative oI anything or bearing some sort oI indication oI the
legitimacy or competency or Iidelity to the principle that this Bar is supposed to
uphold, but which some people might say it doesn't seem as to a lot oI the time.
MR. ECHEVERRIA: Anything else? MR. COUGHLIN: It also goes to
mitigation, I think. MR. ECHEVERRIA: How so? MR. COUGHLIN: I think it
places me in a lot more sympathetic light to the extent that it shows police
misconduct. MR. ECHEVERRIA: Mr. King? MR. KING: Mr. Chairman, there
has been a multitude oI videos taken by Mr. Coughlin. Some you might recall when
he was in his bedroom in his pajamas, and he was talking about things like Mr. Hill
taking bribes. He posted inIormation about court personnel, their salaries, et cetera.
Those, all oI those YouTube, have been taken oII oI YouTube by Mr. Coughlin so
they cannot be accessed. I have viewed a videotape oI Mr. Coughlin and the 9-1-1
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oIIicers. MR. COUGHLIN: Objection. Lack oI Ioundation. MR. KING: However,
it's not admitted in this case -- MR. ECHEVERRIA: Excuse me. Mr. Coughlin,
I've tried to be very patient in terms oI your interruptions. You continue to do so.
Can you Iind it within yourselI to reIrain Irom doing that? You will have every
opportunity to respond. But I do not appreciate your continuing interruptions oI
virtually every person that speaks, including your mother. So please reIrain Irom
doing it. Proceed, Mr. King. MR. KING: In review oI some oI the excerpted
videos that Mr. Coughlin submitted to me, they are cut, and I don't know the word,
because I can't do it, I'm not an editor, but they're not complete, they don't show the
story. And I suspect that whatever he's going to show you would put him in a more
sympathetic light, because I suspect he's taken out all oI the derogatory things he
said to the police oIIicers. More important, those were not part oI my case against
Mr. Coughlin. I did not allege in the complaint that he abused the police oIIicers, or
resisted arrest, or used proIanity with the police oIIicers. I said he was convicted oI
theIt, convicted oI criminal trespass, and has demonstrated here a pattern oI
contempt Ior the court, and a lack oI ability to practice law. What Mr. Coughlin is
attempting to do is to steer you back to whether or not he was guilty oI the crimes
oI which he was convicted, and to show you that perhaps somebody within the
arrest process either did or didn't Iollow all oI their procedures, which are irrelevant
to this proceeding. And so I would just say that because the video excerpts that he
intends to play are suspect, and there's nobody to testiIy that they're the complete or
accurate videos other than Mr. Coughlin himselI. I think they're irrelevant, and in
this case would be highly prejudicial, plus a waste oI time. MR. ECHEVERRIA:
Anything Iurther? MR. COUGHLIN: Your Honor, iI I could just enter Ior the
record. Mr. Johnson's been on his smart phone throughout this proceeding. I mean
you no disrespect, sir. Maybe he doesn't Ieel much oI a connection to what's going
on here today. And I would indicate that to the extent that this is presented as a
panel, and somehow some sort oI consensus thereby suggested, I would just enter
Ior the record, Mr. Johnson does not seem to Iind much oI a consensus being Iound
here today. So much so that he's been on his smart phone throughout this
proceeding. And I'm just going notate that Ior the record. MR. KING: II I can
respond brieIly. MR. ECHEVERRIA: So Iar you've attacked me. Now you've
attacked Mr. Johnson. Do you wish to attack any other panel member? MR.
COUGHLIN: I do not Iind that I've attacked anybody, sir. I Iind that I've
demonstrated my Iidelity to Iundamental notions oI due process and Iair play. MR.
ECHEVERRIA: Let's return to the video that you claim to have taken that you
now intend to proIIer. Is it a video oI your arrest that ultimately led to your
conviction Ior criminal trespass? MR. COUGHLIN: Not the one oI the admission
by Sergeant Lopez. MR. ECHEVERRIA: What is it that you intend to play oI
Sergeant Lopez? MR. COUGHLIN: A video where I'm asking her some stuII
about police misconduct. MR. ECHEVERRIA: Police misconduct. That's not an
issue here. MR. COUGHLIN: Incident to the Richard Hill deal. HEARING - Vol.
I, (Page 241:12 to 241:13) MR. ECHEVERRIA: I'll rule it as irrelevant. Proceed."
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Now compare the "boyhood chum" treatment given to Elcano:
HEARING - Vol. I, (Pages 112:8 to 116:21) And Mr. Coughlin is not stupid. So I
took that in large part to be a competency issue. MR. KING: I very much
appreciate your testimony and candor. I'll pass the witness. MR. ECHEVERRIA:
Thank you, Mr. King. Mr. Coughlin, it's now 11:31. You have 15 minutes. MR.
COUGHLIN: Yes, sir. Thank you. MR. KING: I apologize. I meant to have this
admitted. Did I lay a proper Ioundation? I would move Ior Exhibit 3 to be
admitted. MR. ECHEVERRIA: Any objection now, sir? MR. COUGHLIN: I
didn't hear the Ioundation. I'm sorry. MR. ECHEVERRIA: The Ioundation was
Mr. Elcano attended the hearing, reviewed this order, and determined it to be --
This is a true and correct copy oI the order that you looked at Iollowing the
hearing? THE WITNESS: Yes. The one that was transmitted to us by the judge.
MR. COUGHLIN: Transmitted just by the judge? THE WITNESS: We have a
copy oI it in our Iile. MR. COUGHLIN: Transmitted to you? THE WITNESS:
Washoe Legal Services. I checked it with my order. It appears to be the same
order. MR. COUGHLIN: But you're not saying how it was transmitted to the State
Bar? MR. ECHEVERRIA: I'm interested in how it was transmitted. I'm interested
in iI this is a true and correct copy oI the order issued by Judge Gardner in the Joshi
case -- MR. COUGHLIN: You mentioned he attended trial. He didn't attend the
trial. MR. KING: He said he -- MR. COUGHLIN: You said he attended the trial.
But he didn't attend the trial. MR. ECHEVERRIA: Mr. Elcano testiIied he attended
the hearing. THE WITNESS: No, I reviewed the tape oI the hearing. I wasn't at the
hearing. But in the Iamily court they are on tape. MR. ECHEVERRIA: I'm Iocused
on whether or not this is a true and correct copy oI the order issued by Judge
Gardner. And have you determined this to be the true and correct copy? THE
WITNESS: Yes. It's the order I relied on. MR. ECHEVERRIA: It will be
admitted. (Exhibit 3 admitted.) MR. ECHEVERRIA: Go ahead, Mr. Coughlin.
MR. COUGHLIN: One thing, your Honor, with respect to the received stamp on it.
That's something that was on the order. MR. ECHEVERRIA: Pardon me? MR.
COUGHLIN: See the received? MR. ECHEVERRIA: Right. MR. COUGHLIN:
That's State Bar. MR. ECHEVERRIA: Right. MR. COUGHLIN: Put that there.
MR. ECHEVERRIA: Right. MR. COUGHLIN: So it's not really a copy oI the
order. It has something that was not on the order. MR. ECHEVERRIA: Okay.
Overruled. Is that your objection? MR. COUGHLIN: It has a Iunny 5 on it. It's one
day aIter Judge Gardner submitted hers. It seems kind oI Iunny, like ghost reading
is going on, because we don't know who submitted this. Who submitted it, Pat?
MR. VELLIS: Mr. Elcano, do you have another copy oI the order that you
received Irom the court aIter the hearing that you compared this one to? I think you
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said you did? THE WITNESS: I compared it to it. Mine has two blank spots in it
though, two short areas, but otherwise they seem to be verbatim and end on the
same pages. MR. VELLIS: Is there a stamp Irom the State Bar on the one that you
got Irom the court? MR. COUGHLIN: You didn't get this Irom Joey or Gina
Hastings -- MR. ECHEVERRIA: Mr. Coughlin, I'm not going to permit questions
among the attorneys. That's improper. MR. COUGHLIN: Yes, sir. MR.
ECHEVERRIA: So iI you have a question, you need to address it to the panel.
MR. COUGHLIN: It's improper to say it's certiIied when it's not. THE WITNESS:
The copy I reviewed is Iiled electronically by Howard Conyers, the clerk oI the
court. MR. VELLIS: And there's no stamp Irom the State Bar on the one that you
reviewed? THE WITNESS: No. MR. VELLIS: That's the one you received Irom
the court? THE WITNESS: Yes. MR. VELLIS: And that one is the same as the
one that's been admitted, Exhibit 3? THE WITNESS: Save and except two blank
spots that are the Iault oI the copier. MR. ECHEVERRIA: Mr. Coughlin, it's
admitted. Proceed. MR. COUGHLIN: Yes. Thank you. CROSS-EXAMINATION
BY MR. COUGHLIN: Q Mr. Elcano, did you tell me when I was working at
Washoe -- I'll say Washoe Ior short -- and I'll say I like Mr. Elcano a great deal. I
respect him a lot. I do. MR. ECHEVERRIA: I'm not interested in your side issues.
II you have a question oI Mr. Elcano, please ask him. MR. COUGHLIN: Okay."
Dated this 7/18/13
/s/ Zach Coughlin, signed electronically
Zach Coughlin, Esq.
Appellant
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Proof of Service:
On this date, I, Zach Coughlin electronically served a true and correct copy oI the
Ioregoing document to all registered eIilers, and to those whom are not I placed a
true and correct copy oI the Ioregoing document in the usps mail on this date:
State Bar oI Nevada's Patrick O. King and David Clark.
Richard G. Hill, Esq.
Casey Baker, Esq.
Richard G. Hill, CHTD.
Attorneys Ior Respondent Merliss
652 Forrest St.
Reno, NV 89509
DATED THIS: Dated thi 7/18/13
/s/ Zach Coughlin
Zach Coughlin
Appellant
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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEVADA
ZACH COUGHLIN;

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NOTICE AND DECLARATION AS TO SBN CLER+ OF COURT PETERS
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MOTION TO PROCEED IN FORMA PAUPERIS IN THIS APPEAL AND AN-
PROCEEDINGS TO BE CONDUCTED IN THE TRIAL COURT; MOTION TO
RE.UIRE +ING TO BECOME AND EFILER SUFFICIENT TO AMELIORATE
CURRENT CIRCUMSTANCES /HERE RPD AND CIT- OF RENO
ATTORNE-S ARREST AND PROSECUTE COUGHLIN FOR EVEN
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a3a2nst C#34l2n 2n t4e #n!e$l82n3 s#%%a$8 ev26t2n %atte$ p#$s#ant t NRS
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pa3e < 5 '1 2t 5a2ls t 2!ent258 a TPO Appl62at2n ?8 R264a$! G. H2ll1 Es=.1 a3a2nst
C#34l2n 74e$e +2n31 Pete$s1 an! t4e SBN 7e$e %a!e 7ell a7a$e 5 s#64 ?8
C#34l2n1 an! even p$v2!e! ?t4 t4e O$!e$ 2n RCP (:9(;::::9G an! H2ll,s l2e!
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t !2v#l3e t42s 2n5$%at2n1 espe62all8 as 2t $elates t H2ll1 2s t$#?l2n3. A!!2t2nall8
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?een an8 t4e$ C#$t a6t2ns $ an8 t4e$ $elat2ns42ps ?et7een t4e e%pl8e$ an!
t4e A!ve$se Pa$t8KO +2n3 64e6C t4e ,8esO ?H. In t4e ?lanC 5ll72n3 NI5 8es1
please !es6$2?e&O +2n3 7$te ND2s62pl2ne Hea$2n3 4el! 99@9<@(:9(.
+2n3 6%pletel8 5a2ls t 2n!26ate t4at t4e$e 2s ant4e$ a6t2n ?et7een t4e
pa$t2es 2n t4at t4e appeal 5 t4e 9(@9<@9( FOFCOL 2s n7 ?e5$e t4e Neva!a
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RBC B#!3e Pea$sn,s TPO a !2st$#?2n3l8 ve$?$a! $!e$ t4at 4as ve$8 t$#?l2n3
la6C 5 $e3a$! 5$ C#34l2n,s $234ts as a l2t23ant 2n t7 !255e$ent 6ases 74e$e2n t4e
SBN 2s t4e pps2n3 pa$t81 ?t4 5 74264 2%pl26ate an eHt$e%el8 val#a?le an!
p$2%a$8 p$pe$t8 $234t t C#34l2n1 42s la7 l26ense. F#$t4e$1 +2n3,s s2%pl8 nat2n3
ND2s62pl2ne 4ea$2n3 4el! 99@9<@(:9(O 6%petel8 5a2ls t 2n5$% t4e 6#$t as t t4e
5a6t t4at t4e$e 7as an n32n3 t$2al 6#$t 6ase ?et7een t4ese t7 pa$t2es1 72t4 t4e
SBN pe$at2n3 2n at least a !#al $le as ?t4 t4e p$se6#t$ an! t4e s2t#s 5 t4e
6#$t1 an! t4e NCle$C 5 C#$tO,s l6at2n. T42s 3es t t4e 4ea$t 5 t4e p$?le%
6#$$entl8 2n Neva!a 74e$e t4e SBN 6annt ?e t$#ste! t 7ea$ s %an8 4ats1 74e$e
+2n3 an! Pete$s 4ave ?latantl8 a?#se! t4e p#?l26,s t$#st 2n t4at $e3a$! an! s#34t t
taCe a!vanta3e 5 t4e 6#$$ent st$#6t#$e at eve$8 pss2?le pp$t#n2t81 s%et42n3 t4e
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te%p$a$8 $est$a2n2n3 $!e$ $ 2n>#n6t2n an! a7a$!2n3 att$ne8 5ees 2n a lan!l$!;
tenant %atte$. Se6n! B#!262al D2st$26t C#$t1 /as4e C#nt8; Pat$26C Flana3an1
B#!3e.
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an appeal 5$% a >#st26e 6#$t $!e$ 2n a lan!l$! tenant !2sp#te. Fll72n3 t4e
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!en2al 5 t4at %t2n1 appellant appeale! t t42s 6#$t. S#?se=#entl81 t4e !2st$26t
6#$t ente$e! an $!e$ a7a$!2n3 att$ne8 5ees t $espn!ent an! appellant als
appeale! 5$% t4at $!e$.
T4e !2st$26t 6#$t 4as 52nal appellate >#$2s!26t2n in all cases arising in justice
courts. Nev. Cnst. a$t. '1 E '; see als /a#34 v. CasaJJa1 GF Nev. F(:1 F(91 <FG
P.(! )FD1 )': 09D'D". Alt4#34 NRAP )A0?"0)" a#t4$2Jes an appeal 5$% an $!e$
$e5#s2n3 t 3$ant an 2n>#n6t2n1 an! NRAP )A0?"0G" a#t4$2Jes an appeal 5$% a
pst;>#!3%ent $!e$ a7a$!2n3 att$ne8 5ees1 see /2nstn P$!s. C.1 In6. v.
DeBe$1 9(( Nev. F9*1 F(F1 9)< P.)! *('1 *)9 0(::'" 0$e63n2J2n3 t4at an $!e$
a7a$!2n3 att$ne8 5ees an! 6sts 2s s#?stant2vel8 appeala?le as a spe62al $!e$ a5te$
52nal >#!3%ent"1 ?e6a#se t4e $!e$s 64allen3e! 2n t42s 6ase a$se 5$% t4e !2st$26t
6#$t,s eHe$62se 5 appellate >#$2s!26t2n ve$ an appeal 5$% a >#st26e 6#$t
!e62s2n1 t4e !2st$26t 6#$t,s $!e$s 7e$e stens2?l8 $en!e$e! 52nal an! a$e nt
appeala?le t t42s 6#$t.F$ t4e sa%e $easns1 t t4e eHtent t4at appellant seeCs t
appeal 5$% an8 t4e$ $!e$ $ !ete$%2nat2n a$2s2n3 5$% t4e !2st$26t 6#$t,s
appellate $ev2e7 5 t4e >#st26e 6#$t %atte$1 t42s 6#$t l2Ce72se la6Cs >#$2s!26t2n t
6ns2!e$ an8 s#64 appeals. A66$!2n3l81 as 7e la6C >#$2s!26t2n ve$ t42s appeal1 7e
ORDER t42s appeal DISMISSED.l @s@ G2??ns1 D#3las1 Sa2tta 05n9 lRespn!ent,s
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t4e$ 3$#n!s an! 42s Ap$2l ('1 (:9)1 %t2n t st$2Ce a$e !en2e! as %t. T t4e
eHtent t4at $espn!ent seeCs att$ne8 5ees ?ase! n t4e %t2n t !2s%2ss t42s
appeal1 t4at $e=#est 2s !en2e!. /e 5#$t4e$ !en8 as %t an8 t4e$ $e=#ests 5$ $el2e5
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t D2s%2ss 5a2le! t a$3#e t4at t4e C#$t la6Ce! >#$2s!26t2n t 4ea$ t4e appeal 5
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NRS <:.)GF 0an! t4e D2st$26t C#$t an! N. S. Ct. ?t4 see% t ?e ve$lC2n3 t4e
eHtent t 74264 t4at %t2n 7as p$e%2se! #pn1 an! 62te! t spe62526all81 NRS
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C#$t1 5$ 4ea$2n3 s#64 Mt2ns 5$ Sta8. T42s %eans t4at Nev. Cnst. A$t26le '
Se6. '. !es nt vest A52nal appellate >#$2s!26t2nA 2n t4e D2st$26t C#$t 2n s#64
2nstan6es1 as t4e ve$s2n 5 NRS <:.)GF 2n e55e6t !#$2n3 all $elevant t2%es 4e$e2n
7as t4at 74264 ?e6a%e e55e6t2ve 9:@9@991 74264 2%pl26ates NRAP G 0as !es NRS
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pssess2n 5 p$e%2ses t pa8 $ent !#$2n3 sta8.ZZUpn an appeal 5$% an $!e$
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?ta2ne! ?8 52l2n3 72t4 t4e t$2al 6#$t a ?n! 2n t4e a%#nt 5 M(F: t 6ve$ t4e
eHpe6te! 6sts n appeal. A s#$et8 #pn t4e ?n! s#?%2ts t t4e >#$2s!26t2n 5 t4e
appellate 6#$t an! 2$$ev6a?l8 app2nts t4e 6le$C 5 t4at 6#$t as t4e s#$et8Vs a3ent
#pn 74% pape$s a55e6t2n3 t4e s#$et8Vs l2a?2l2t8 #pn t4e ?n! %a8 ?e se$ve!.
L2a?2l2t8 5 a s#$et8 %a8 ?e en5$6e!1 $ t4e ?n! %a8 ?e $elease!1 n %t2n 2n
t4e appellate 6#$t 72t4#t 2n!epen!ent a6t2n. A tenant of o&&erial !ro!erty
&ay o%tain a stay of e4eution only u!on t#e issuane of a stay !ursuant to
Rule + of t#e Ne"ada Rules of A!!ellate Proedure and t#e !ostin) of a
su!ersedeas %ond in t#e a&ount of 6;; !erent of t#e un!aid rent lai& of t#e
landlord.
(.ZZA tenant 74 $eta2ns pssess2n 5 t4e p$e%2ses t4at a$e t4e s#?>e6t 5 t4e
appeal !#$2n3 t4e pen!en68 5 t4e appeal s4all pa8 t t4e lan!l$! $ent 2n t4e
a%#nt p$v2!e! 2n t4e #n!e$l82n3 6nt$a6t ?et7een t4e tenant an! t4e lan!l$! as
2t ?e6%es !#e. I5 t4e tenant 5a2ls t pa8 s#64 $ent1 t4e lan!l$! %a8 2n2t2ate ne7
p$6ee!2n3s 5$ a s#%%a$8 ev26t2n ?8 se$v2n3 t4e tenant 72t4 a ne7 nt26e
p#$s#ant t NRS <:.(F).
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T4e 5#nn8 t42n3 a?#t NRS <:.)GF 2s t4at 2s p$v2!es 5#$t4e$ s#pp$t 5$ t4e
a$3#%ent t4at t4e s#%%a$8 ev26t2ns p$6e!#$es 5#n! 2n NRS <:.(F) %a8 nt ?e
#t2l2Je! a3a2nst a 6%%e$26al tenant s#64 as C#34l2n 2n a n 6a#se ev26t2n pe$
NRS <:.(F<. C#34l2n !2!1 2n 5a6t A$a2se 2n t4e t$2al 6#$tA s#64 a$3#%ent 0!esp2te
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(@(<@9( B$2e5 2n t4e appeal t t4e D2st$26t C#$t 2n CV99;:)'(G1 an! 2n t4e2$
test2%n8 at t4e '@9G@9( 6$2%2nal t$espass t$2al a3a2nst C#34l2n ste%%2n3 5$% t4e
99@9)@99 a$$est at 42s 5$%e$ 4%e la7 5526e.
Bes2!es a %#lt2t#!e 5 2nstan6es 74e$e C#34l2n 2!ent252e! t4e p$pe$t8 2n 42s
plea!2n3s an! t4e t$ans6$2pts 5 t4e 9:@9)@99 an! 9:@(F@99 4ea$2n3s as 42s A5526eA
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#pn a $#l2n3 t4at C#34l2n,s NRS 99GA.F9: $etal2at2n !e5ense t t4e s#%%a$8
ev26t2n 6nta2ne! en#34 5 a te$t2a$8 6nne6t2n t alle3e! 4a?2ta?2l2t8 6la2%s t
>#st258 2nvC2n3 NRS 99GA.)FF0F"1 !esp2te t4e 5a6t t4at C#34l2n1 ne1 7asn,t
!e5en!2n3 a nn;pa8 s#%%a$8 ev26t2n ?8 alle32n3 4a?2ta?2l2t8 as a !e5ense1 ?#t1
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s2n3le 72tness1 Me$l2ss 2n6l#!e!1 5$ t4e 9:@9)@99 s#%%a$8 ev26t2n p$6ee!2n31
an! 74e$e ne2t4e$ Me$l2ss1 n$ BaCe$1 eve$ 52le! an! a552!av2t $ De6la$at2n
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6annt ?e #se!. <or instane$ su&&ary e"ition is not a"aila%le for= :> E"ition
of o&&erial tenants for ot#er t#an non!ay&ent of rent ?See NRS ,;.:@,>
2sin) loation for a Ao&&erialA la- !ratie$ you filed a no ause$ ie$ Afor
ot#er t#an non!ay&ent of rent$ nt ?ase! 2n la7 $ 5a6t1 R#le 991 pl#s t42s es6$7
t42n3 3ets p#t as#n!e$. NRS <:.(F< Unla75#l !eta2ne$& S#pple%ental $e%e!8 5
s#%%a$8 ev26t2n an! eH6l#s2n 5 tenant 5$% 6e$ta2n t8pes 5 p$pe$t8. Lease
allo-s for use for o&&erial !ur!oses. Void$ "oid$ "oidB NBCRCP FD1 ':...A
NRS <:.)9: Iss#e 5 5a6t t ?e t$2e! ?8 >#$8 25 p$pe$ !e%an! %a!e. /4eneve$ an
2ss#e 5 5a6t 2s p$esente! ?8 t4e plea!2n3s1 2t s4all ?e t$2e! ?8 a >#$81 25 p$pe$
!e%an! 2s %a!e p#$s#ant t t4e Neva!a R#les 5 C2v2l P$6e!#$e $ t4e B#st26e
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p4$ase t4e$e2n Atest t4e t$#t45#llness an! s#55262en68 5 t4e a552!av2tsA an! An le3al
!e5enseA. P$ev2#sl8 I t4#34t s#64 lan3#a3e %eant t4e NRCP F'06" p$n3 5
A3en#2ne 2ss#e 5 %ate$2al 5a6tA 7as NOT 2n6l#!e! 2n an8 anal8s2s 5 74et4e$ t4e$e
2s An le3al !e5enseA...?#t #pn $ev2e72n3 Anv#2 s%e %$e1 an! s%e t4e$
%ate$2als1 2s see%s t4e A3en#2ne 2ss#e 5 %ate$2al 5a6tA p$n3 2s 2n6l#!e! #n!e$ an
anal8s2s 5 74et4e$ t4e$e 2s An le3al !e5enseA 074264 see%s #n5a2$ t %e 2n a
s#%%a$8 ev26t2n sett2n3 6ns2!e$2n3 t4e$e 2s essent2all8 Je$ pp$t#n2t8 5$
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ev26t2n p$6ee!2n3 5$% last 7eeC..
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?e2n3 $e=#2$e! t l2t23ate t4e n 6a#se s#%%a$8 ev26t2n as a nn;pa8%ent
s#%%a$8 ev26t2n1 $eplete 72t4 an eHten!e! $ev2e7 5 %8 alle3e! A4a?2ta?2l2t8
!e5enseA 02e1 %8 $etal2at2n !e5ense tan3ent2all8 2nvlve! 2ss#es 5 4a?2ta?2l2t8"" 2n
t4at t4e 4l!ve$ p$6ee!2n3@n 6a#se ?as2s@2ss#e 5 74et4e$ t4e lease 4a! ?een
te$%2nate! ve$s#s AeHp2$e!A 0H2ll,s ass62ate an! t4e lan!l$! essent2all8 6%%2tte!
5$a#! ?8 !e6la$2n3 t4e lease 7as AeHp2$e!A 74en1 2n a6t#al2t81 t4e lan3#a3e 5 t4e
lease 2n!26ate! 2t 7as 5$ Anot less than 1 monthsA1 nt a 52n2te pe$2! 5 9(
%nt4s 0s#$e1 t4e lan!l$! 6an a$3#e s#64 6nt$a!26t2ns ?et7een 42s an! 42s
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patent $ ?v2#s 5$% a $ev2e7 5 t4e 9:@9D@99 De6la$at2n 5 Lanl!$!,s C#nsel
074264 6nta2ns nt42n3 %$e t4an a 6n6l#s$8 state%ent t4at t4e lan!l$!,s 6la2%
2s Aa#t4$2Je! ?8 la7A"1 ?#t 32ven t4e t4$ee !a8s 5$ 6nst$#6t2ve se$v26e t4e$e5
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9:@(F@99 p$6ee!2n3. S#64 s6ant nt26e 5 t4e ?as2s an! spe62526 5a6t#al
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42s 6ntent2n t4at t4e lease 7as nt AeHp2$e!A s#55262ent t a$3#e t4e t4e G@((@99
Nt26e 5 Te$%2nat2n 7as 2ns#55262ent.
T4e %a2n p#$pse 5 plea!2n3s 2n a s#%%a$8 p$6ee!2n3 2s t app$2se t4e
t4e$ pa$t81 ?8 alle3at2ns 5 #lt2%ate 5a6ts1 74at 72ll ?e esta?l2s4e! at t4e t$2al.
S<T A tenant is entitled to a onise state&ent of t#e ulti&ate fats on -#i# a
non!ay&ent su&&ary !roeedin) is !rediated so t#at t#e issues are !ro!erly
raised and an %e &et.SFT T4#s1 a 6%pla2nt 52le! 2n a 5$62?le ent$8 an! !eta2ne$
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09D)(". R234t t 52le ans7e$ an! 6#nte$6la2% Ga.ILena$! v. Dnal!1 9)< Ga.
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pp$t#n2t8 t As#?stant2ateA t4e Ale3al !e5enseA 4e asse$te! 2n 42s Tenant,s
A552!av2t an! !#$2n3 t4e s#a spnte 6$ss eHa%2nat2n ?8 S5e$$aJJa n 9:@9)@99
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l6ate!1 -#i#e"er #as 0urisdition o"er t#e &atter. T4e ourt &ay t#ereu!on
issue an order diretin) t#e s#eriff or onsta%le of t#e ounty to re&o"e t#e
tenant -it#in :, #ours after reei!t of t#e order. T4e a552!av2t %#st state $
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0t4e lease eHp$essl8 all7e! 5$ #s2n3 t4e p$e%2ses 5$ $es2!ent2al1 6%%e$62al1 an!
Aan8 t4e$ p#$psesA1 an! Gasse$ v. Bet C$a5t %aCes 6lea$ t4at t4e lan!l$!,s
a$3#%ent t4at s%e alle3e! 5a2l#$e t 4ave a 6#$$ent $ pa2! #p $ a6t2ve ?#s2ness
l26ense as t t4e %att$ess ?#s2ness 0$ t 4ave t4e a!!$ess 2n =#est2n 5$ t4at sle
p$p$2et$s42p l2ste! 72t4 t4e State 5 Neva!a,s Depa$t%ent 5 TaHat2n 0t4#341
t4e$e 2s 6n5l26t2n3 ev2!en6e 2n t4at $e3a$!1 an! $e3a$!less1 Me$l2ss 5a2le! t $a2se
s#64 2ss#e 2n t4e t$2al 6#$t" $ 4%e la7 5526e@la7 p$a6t26e $ t4e$ te64n26al
!e5262en62es !es nt pe$ate t %aCe s#64 6%%e$62al #se 5 t4e p$e%2ses A2lle3alA
$ v2lat2ve 5 an8 $est$26!t2n a3a2nst #s2n3 t4e p$e%2ses 5$ an8 A#nla75#l
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B#$2s!26t2nal !ete$%2nat2n& Pssess2n not %ased
on residential tenany$ ev26t2n nt p$pe$ $e%e!8 an! s#%%a$8 p$6e!#$e nt
ava2la?le. G$2%% v. H#6Ca?ee1 GD9 S. (! ':G 0Fla. 9st DCA (::F".
T4e 9:@(*@99 FOFCOLOSE 5a2ls t spe6258 74et4e$ C#34l2n,s tenan68 7as
$es2!ent2al1 6%%e$62al1 $ ?t4. B#!262al estppel !es nt pe$ate t p$e6l#!e
C#34l2n 5$% plea!2n3 an! a$3#2n3 t4at 42s 7as ?t4 a 6%%e$62al an! $es2!ent2al
tenan68 0A4%e la7 5526eA 2s a p4$ase $epeate! 6nt2n##sl81 pa$t26#la$l8 2n t4e
2nt$!#6t$8 plea!2n3s an! t$ans6$2pts 5 t4e p$6ee!2n3s". At ?est Me$l2ss %234t
a$3#e t4at as t t4e p$t2n 5 C#34l2n,s tenan68 t4at 7as $es2!ent2al1 4e 2s
pe$%2tte! t #t2l2Je t4e p$6e!#$es 2n NRS <:.(F)1 47eve$1 s#64 app$a64 7#l!
nt ent2tle Me$l2ss t #t2l2Je s#64 p$6e!#$es a3a2nst t p$t2n 5 C#34l2n,s
tenan68 t4at 7as 5 a 6%%e$62al1 la7 5526e1 nat#$e. Pe$4aps >#!262al estppel
appl2es t p$event Me$l2ss 5$% $232nall8 6la2%2n3 t ?e ev26t2n3 C#34l2n 5$ nn;
pa8%ent 5 $ent 2n 9<D(1 t4en 64an32n3 6#$se an! ?$2n32n3 t4e n;6a#se s#%%a$8
ev26t2n 2n 9*:G. Ce$ta2nl81 6llate$al estppel 5$% 9<D(1 as s#64 2ss#e 7as
a6t#all8 l2t23ate! t4e$e2n 0Me$l2ss t#$n2n3 tale an! A!2s%2ss2n3A 42s 7n nn;
pa8%ent s#%%a$8 ev26t2n 4a$!l8 pe$ates as a 3et #t 5 >a2l pass as t t4e
appl26at2n 5 6llate$al estppel 2n 9*:G v2s a v2s t4e appl26at2n 5 NRS
99GA.)FF0F" ?8 B#!3e S5e$$aJJa1 espe62all8 74e$e Me$l2ss,s att$ne8 $epeate!l8
2ns2ste! 4e 7as nt seeC2n3 $ent an! t4at pssess2n 5 t4e p$pe$t8 7as all t4at 7as
s#34t1 an! 74e$e C#34l2n neve$ n6e a!%2tte! t 72n3 $ 72t44l!2n3 an8 $ent
5$% Me$l2ss. Rat4e$1 C#34l2n 2nvCe! NRS 99GA.)':1 a3$ee%ents ?et7een
lan!l$! an! tenant pe$at2n3 as $ent !e!#6t2ns1 an! t4e pa8%ent 5 $ent t Me$l2ss
2n asse$t2n3 t4at %st !e62!e!l8 !2! nt 7e Me$l2ss an8 $ent1 an! 7as 2n n 7a8
asse$t2n3 a pst#$e #n!e$ NRS 99GA.)FF0F" v2s a v2s A72t44l!2n3A an8 $ent.
T4e $!e$ $e=#2$2n3 C#34l2n t !eps2t 2nt t4e RBC a A$ent es6$7A 5
M(1(*F 074264 C#3l2n 52le! an 2nte$l6#t$8 appeal t n 9:@9*@991 an! an8
p#$p$te! >#st2526at2n ?8 t4e RBC t4at 2t,s 5a2l#$e t t$ans%2t s#64 appeal t t4e
D2st$26t C#$t p$e%2se! #pn s%e nt2n t4at C#34l2n 4a! 5a2le! t Ape$5e6tA 42s
appeal 0espe62all8 74e$e s#64 2s ?ase! n an8 nt2n t4at C#34l2n1 74% 7as
3$ante! 2n 5$%a pa#pe$2s stat#s ?8 t4e RBC,s 9:@'@99 O$!e$1 nee!e! t pa8 t4e
52l2n3 5ee 5 e2t4e$ t4e RBC $ (BDC1 $ s%e Aappeal ?n!A 0espe62all8 74e$e
NBCRCP *);*' a$e 6lea$l8 nt appl26a?le t s#%%a$8 ev26t2ns. See NRS <:.)GF
an! t4e RBC,s 7n AAppeal In5$%at2nA 4an!#ts" AAlt4#34 a lan!l$! 3ene$all8
2s ent2tle! t $e=#2$e a tenant 2n pssess2n t !eps2t $ents 2nt t4e 6#$t $e32st$8
!#$2n3 t4e 6#$se 5 an8 lan!l$! tenant !2sp#te 74e$e t4e tenant 2nte$pses an8
!e5ense t4e$ t4an pa8%ent1 t4e $#le 82el!s 74e$e t2tle 2s 2n 2ss#e. T42s eH6ept2n 2s
7ell 2ll#st$ate! ?8 t4e $e6ent F#$t4 D2st$26t C#$t 5 Appeal 6ase1 F$e8 v. L2ve66421
GF( S.(! GD' 0Fla. <t4 DCA (::)". In F$e81 Pa%ela L2ve66421 t4e 7ne$ 5 a
B$7a$! C#nt8 4%e1 ente$e! 2nt a ne;8ea$ $es2!ent2al lease a3$ee%ent 72t4 t4e
F$e8s. I!. at GD*. T4e F$e8s alle3e! t4at at t4e en! 5 t4e lease a3$ee%ent t4e8 4a!
ente$e! 2nt an pt2n t p#$64ase t4e p$pe$t8. I!. L2ve66421 n t4e t4e$ 4an!1
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!en2e! t4e eH2sten6e 5 an8 s#64 pt2n an! asse$te! t4at at t4e en! 5 t4e lease1 t4e
F$e8s ?e6a%e %nt4;t;%nt4 tenants. I!. At t4e en! 5 t4e pe$2!1 L2ve6642 sent
t4e F$e8s a nt26e t va6ate t4e p$e%2ses. I!. T4e F$e8s $espn!e! 72t4 a 6%pla2nt
5$ spe62526 pe$5$%an6e ?ase! #pn t4e p#$p$te! pt2n. I!. /2t4#t 6n!#6t2n3
an ev2!ent2a$8 4ea$2n3 n t42s !2sp#te1 t4e t$2al 6#$t $!e$e! t4e F$e8s t p#t t4e
!2sp#te! past !#e N$entO 2n t4e $e32st$8 5 t4e 6#$t $ 5a6e an $!e$ 5 ev26t2n. I!.
T4e 6#$t 5 appeal $eve$se! stat2n3& Se6t2n G).':0("1 Fl$2!a Stat#tes1 $e=#2$es
pa8%ent 5 $ent 2nt t4e $e32st$8 5 t4e 6#$t 2n $es2!ent2al lan!l$! tenant !2sp#tes
#n!e$ Pa$t II 5 C4apte$ G). G).':1 Fla. Stat. 09DDD". H7eve$1 se6t2n G).': !es
nt appl8 74en t4e 66#pan68 2s #n!e$ a 6nt$a6t 5$ sale 5 a !7ell2n3 #n2t $ t4e
p$pe$t8 5 74264 2t 2s a pa$t. G).<(0("1 Fla. Stat. 09DDD". T4e F$e8s 6la2% t4at t42s
p$v2s2n 2s 2nappl26a?le ?e6a#se t4e8 7e$e nt tenants #n!e$ t4e stat#te. Rat4e$1
t4e2$ 6la2% 2s ?ase! n t4e2$ $234ts #n!e$ a 6nt$a6t 5$ sale. T4e $esl#t2n 5 t42s
5a6t#al !2sp#te 7#l! !ete$%2ne 74et4e$ se6t2n G).': 2s appl26a?le. Be6a#se s#64
a !ete$%2nat2n 7#l! ?e !2sps2t2ve1 7e 4l! t4at t4e t$2al 6#$t 7as $e=#2$e! t
6n!#6t an ev2!ent2a$8 4ea$2n3 ?e5$e !ete$%2n2n3 74et4e$ t4e F$e8s 7e$e $e=#2$e!
t pa8 %ne8 2nt t4e 6#$t $e32st$8. Be6a#se t4e t$2al 6#$t 5a2le! t 6n!#6t s#64 a
4ea$2n31 7e 52n! t4at t4e t$2al 6#$t e$$e! 2n 2%ps2n3 s#64 a $e=#2$e%ent1 e$$e! 2n
ente$2n3 t4e !e5a#lt >#!3%ent1 an! $eve$se t4e ent$8 5 t4e 52nal !e5a#lt >#!3%ent.
I!. at GD*;DG; Ksee als G$2%% v. H#6Ca?ee1 GD9 S.(! ':G 0Fla. 9st DCA (::F".
C5. Blan6 v. Nva1 GF< S.(! '*(1 '*) 0Fla. )! DCA (::)"0$eve$s2n3 a %t2n
t pa8 a66$#e! N$entO 2nt t4e $e32st$8 5 t4e 6#$t 74e$e t4e t$2al 6#$t N6nst$#e!
t4e a3$ee%ent ?et7een Blan6 an! Nva t ?e a St$#eT leaseO $at4e$ t4an a
%$t3a3e"; KF2$st Hanve$ v. VaJ=#eJ1 G<G S.(! 99GG 0Fla. )! DCA (::)"
0a552$%2n3 t4e 3$ant 5 a %t2n 5$ !e5a#lt an! nn;pa8%ent 5 $ent 74e$e tenant
$at252e! t4e 6nve8an6e 5 p$pe$t8 ?8 ?$2n32n3 a6t2n 5$ !a%a3es 5$ 5$a#!#lent
2n!#6e%ent appa$entl8 72t4#t pla62n3 t2tle 2n 2ss#e". As 2n F$e81 t4e$e 2s a 5a6t#al
!2sp#te 2n t42s 6ase 6n6e$n2n3 74 2s t4e t$#e 7ne$ 5 t4e p$pe$t8. Be6a#se t4e
t$2al 6#$t,s $!e$ $e=#2$2n3 pa8%ents ?8 M2nalla 5 %n2es 2nt t4e $e32st$8 7as
%a!e 72t4#t 6n!#6t2n3 an ev2!ent2a$8 4ea$2n3 6n6e$n2n3 t4e nat#$e 5 t4e
t$ansa6t2n an! 74 2s t4e t$#e 7ne$ 5 t4e $es2!en6e1 t4e 6#$t e$$e! 2n 2%ps2n3
t4e pa8%ent $e=#2$e%ent #pn 4e$.A /inalla ". E5uina&is Cor!.1 DF<. S. (!
'<F 0Fla. )! DCA (::*".
Tennessee Ba$ Ass,n v. Be$Ce1 <G Tenn. App. 9<:1 )<< S./.(! F'* 09D':".
Ev2!en6e ?ea$2n3 t4e ea$%a$Cs 5
p$2vate sp2te s4#l! ?e a66epte! 72t4 eHt$e%e 6a#t2n an! s6$#t2n2Je! %st 6a$e5#ll8. Cal.ISa%psn v.
State Ba$1 9( Cal. )! *:1 99F Cal. Rpt$. <)1 F(< P.(! 9)D 09D*<".
/.Va.IC%%2ttee n Le3al Et426s 5 /est V2$32n2a State Ba$ v. P2et$antn1 9<) /. Va. 991 DD S.E.(!
9F 09DF*".
Deter&inations in !rior !roeedin)s. 0See SCR 99< 5$ anal38 as t nt
$e63n2J2n3 6nv26t2ns 74e$e !#e p$6ess 7as s ?v2#sl8 la6C2n3 2n t4e t$2al
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6#$t" In s%e >#$2s!26t2ns1 a p$2$ 6nv26t2n 5 a 6$2%2nal 55ense %a8
6n6l#s2vel8 esta?l2s4 3#2lt 5 t4e 55ense 64a$3e! 2n att$ne8 !2s62pl2na$8
p$6ee!2n3s.S9*T L2Ce72se1 a 5$e23n >#$2s!26t2n,s a!>#!26at2n 5 3#2lt %a8 ?e
!ee%e! 6n6l#s2ve p$5 5 3#2lt 5 t4e att$ne8 %2s6n!#6t 64a$3e!.S9GT T4e
?#$!en t4en 5alls #pn t4e att$ne8 t !e%nst$ate 748 t4e 5$e23n >#!3%ent 2s nt
val2! $ 748 t4e state s4#l! nt a66ept 2t an! 2%pse san6t2ns ?ase! t4e$en.S9DT
8#ile a 0ud)&ent in a i"il !roeedin) to -#i# t#e res!ondent -as a !arty
&ay %e onlusi"e t#at #e or s#e !erfor&ed !artiular ats #a"in) !artiular
i"il onse5uenes$D:;E t#e result in t#e i"il ation is not onlusi"e in a
disi!linary !roeedin) in esta%lis#in) t#at t#e res!ondent.s ondut -as su#$
under t#e iru&stanes$ as 0ustifies disi!linary ation.D:6E /oreo"er$ t#e
issue of -#at disi!line is a!!ro!riate is not onluded %y a deter&ination in a
!rior !roeedin)$ e"en -#en it is onlusi"e of &isondut on t#e !art of t#e
attorney.S ((T.
SFN9*T N.B.IIn $e B8lan1 9'( N.B. (GD1 *<< A.(! 9FG 0(:::". Mass.I
Matte$ 5 Cn6e%21 <(( Mass. )('1 ''( N.E.(! 9:): 09DD'". Cns2!e$at2n 5
#n!e$l82n3 6n!#6t nt p$e6l#!e! A 6nv26t2n !es nt p$e6l#!e 6ns2!e$at2n 5
t4e a6t#al 6n!#6t 2tsel5 5$ t4e p#$pse 5 !ete$%2n2n3 t4e app$p$2ate !2s62pl2ne t
?e a66$!e! an att$ne8. Ill.IIn $e C2a$!ell21 99G Ill. (! ())1 99) Ill. De6. D<1 F9<
N.E.(! 9::' 09DG*". SFN9GT Fla.IT4e Fl$2!a Ba$ v. M32l1 *') S. (! ):) 0Fla.
(:::". Uns#pp$te! 52n!2n3 !2s$e3a$!e! A 52n!2n3 ?8 a ?a$!1 2n an #t;5;state
!2s62pl2na$8 p$6ee!2n31 t4at t4e $espn!ent 4a! 64a$3e! an eH6ess2ve 5ee 7#l! ?e
!2s$e3a$!e! 2n a !2s62pl2na$8 p$6ee!2n3 72t42n t4e state1 74e$e n ?as2s 5$
s#pp$t2n3 t4e 52n!2n3 6#l! ?e 5#n!. M.IIn $e /e2ne$1 F): S./.(! (((1 G9
A.L.R.)! 9(*( 0M. 9D*F"1 s#pple%ente!1 F<* S./.(! <FD 0M. 9D**". B#$!en 5
s472n3 2n52$%2t8 5 5$e23n p$6ee!2n3 T4e ?#$!en 5 s472n3 t4at t4e $espn!ent
7as !en2e! !#e p$6ess an! t4at t4e$e 7as an 2n52$%2t8 5 p$5 2n t4e 5$e23n
!2s?a$%ent p$6ee!2n3 2s n t4e a66#se! att$ne8. Ne?.IState eH $el. Ne?$asCa
State Ba$ Ass,n v. D2neen1 ()F Ne?. )')1 <FF N./.(! 9*G 09DD:". SFN9DT E 9::.
SFN(:T Tenn.IBe$Ce v. C4attan3a Ba$ Ass,n1 FG Tenn. App. ')'1 <)' S./.(!
(D' 09D'G". SFN(9T I7aIC%%2ttee n P$5ess2nal Et426s v. /$234t1 9*G
N./.(! *<D 0I7a 9D*:". Tenn.ITennessee Ba$ Ass,n v. Be$Ce1 <G Tenn. App.
9<:1 )<< S./.(! F'* 09D':". SFN((T Tenn.IBe$Ce v. C4attan3a Ba$ Ass,n1 FG
Tenn. App. ')'1 <)' S./.(! (D' 09D'G".
F#$t4e$1 t4e (@(G@9( an! )@9)@9( O$!e$s ?8 B#!3e Hl%es 0F$%al Hea$2n3
EH42?2ts < an! F" 7e$e 2n RCM 99 TR ('G::1 72t4 t4e ATRA s23n5282n3 t4e 5a6t t4at
t4e %atte$ 7as a At$a5526 62tat2nA1 2e1 nt a 6$2%2nal %atte$. T4e alle3e! 2n5$a6t2n
6ns2ste! 5 a ,?#leva$! stp,1 %$e 6%%nl8 $e5e$$e! t as a ACal25$n2a RllA.
As s#64
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t$espass 6nv26t2n as $en!e$e! t4at t4e$e 7as An ?as2s 5$ s#pp$t2n3 t4e 52n!2n3A
t4e$e2n an! as s#64 0even t4#34 t4e SCR 9990<" Pet2t2n a!%2ts s#64 A6nv26t2nA
7as nt a Ase$2#s 55enseA 0%aC2n3 all t4e %$e 2n6n3$#s Pat +2n3,s
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$e6%%en!2n3 pe$%anent !2s?a$%ent 0alt4#341 6#$2#sl81 +2n3 see%e! $at4e$
ea3e$ t see H2ll,s 6l2ent1 Me$l2ss1 2n pa$t26#la$1 an! t t4e eH6l#s2n 51 sa81 CIS 2n
':):( $ ':)9* 3ett2n3 t4e2$ att$ne8 5ee a7a$!s pa2! 0even 74e$e H2ll an! +2n3
Cn7 5#ll 7ell t4at B#!3e Flana3an,s G@(G@9( O$!e$ 2n :)'(G 0see '9)G)" %aCes
even %$e 6lea$ t4an 42s )@(*@9(1 )@):@9(1 an! '@(F@9( O$!e$s t4at C#34l2n !2!
nt 6%%2t an8 san6t2na?le 6n!#6t 2n t4at 6ase 074264 7as nt even nt26e;ple!
as ?e2n3 at 2ss#e 2n +2n3,s G@()@9( C%pla2nt1 v2lat2n3 SCR 9:F0("06"1 an!1 5
6#$se1 +2n3 atte%pte! t %aCe F$%al Hea$2n3 EH42?2t ( t4at '@(F@9( att$ne8,s
5ee a7a$! ?8 B#!3e Flana3an...nl8 p$?le% 2s t4at s#64 a7a$! 7as p$e%2se! #pn
0see a!>#!26at$8 ?#n!a$2es ?e2n3 l2%2te! t t4at p#t ?e5$e t4e 6#$t ?8 t4e
pa$t2es" H2ll,s ass62ate BaCe$,s <@9D@9( pst;A>#!3%entA Mt2n 5$ Att8 Fee
A7a$! san6t2ns...p$e%2se! #pn NRS *.:GF an! NRS 'D.:F:....nl8 p$?le% 2s
08# t42nC t4e M':+ t4e8 alle3e t4e$e 6l2ent pa2! t4e% t A72nA t4e s#%%a$8
ev26t2n 5 att$ne8 C#34l2n 5$% 42s 5$%e$ 4%e la7 5526e l6ate! 2n a
!7ell2n3 nt 7$t4 MD:C 2n t!a8,s %a$Cet" t4at NRS <:.<:: %aCes $eal 6lea$ t4at
NRAP appl2es t t4at appeal 5$% t4e >#st26e t t4e !2st$26t 6#$t1 an! NRAP )G
%aCes 6lea$ t4at 6sts 0C2ll2n3 t4e F@((@9( O$!e$ a7a$!2n3 s%e M(1F:: 2n A6stsA
#n!e$ NRS 9G.::F09*" 5$ A7$CA !ne ?8 t4e 6nt$a6t$ t4at 4a! a?sl#tel8
nt42n3 t ! 72t4 t4e 2ss#es n appeal 2n :)'(G 074e$e C#34l2n 7as p$e6l#!e!
5$% ?$2n2n3 6#nte$6la2%s 2n t42s As#%%a$8 ev26t2n p$6ee!2n3A1 t4en 6e$ta2nl8
Me$l2ss s4#l! nt ?e a?le t 72n s%e A>#!3%entA 5$ A6stsA1 74264 a$e $eall8
%e$e A!a%a3esA 4e alle3es 7e$e 2n6#$$e! 2n62!ent t a ?#$3la$8 5 t4e p$pe$t8 t4at
66#$$e! n 9(@9(@99 !#$2n3 t4e s2H 7eeCs 74en H2ll 2n 42s 99@(9@99 e%a2l1 at t4e
ve$8 least1 2%pl2e! 4e 7as a?le t p$event C#34l2n 5$% ?ta2n2n3 a t2%el8 4ea$2n3
n 42s NRS <:.(F)0G" 99@9'@9( Mt2n t Cntest Pe$snal P$pe$t8 L2en #nt2l
12/2/11. HIll s#66ee!e! 2n t4at1 ?#t C#34l2n,s pe$snalt8 7as s#?>e6t t a
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5$% p$%#l3ate! ?8 t4e Neva!a S#p$e%e C#$t an! 72t4 t4e 5$% p$v2!e!
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%nt4 t %nt4 tenant 2n A#3#st (:99 74en t4e te$%2nat2n nt26e 7as
p$pe$l8 se$ve! t4e ev26t2n nt26e 7as p$pe$l8 se$ve! M$. C#34l2n n7
?ea$s t4e ?#$!en -#$ Hn$ 2t s425ts t 42% t p$esent an! s#?stant2ate a le3al
!e5ense n7 t4e le3al stan!a$! 5$ s#%%a$8 >#!3%ent 2n Neva!a 74264 2s 74at
7e$e !2n3 !eal2n3 72t4 4e$e 2s t4at M$. C#34l2n %#st a3a2n t$ans6en! 42s
alle3at2ns 5 42s plea!2n3s an! s47 ?8 a!%2ss2?le ev2!en6e t4at t4e$e 2s a
!2sp#te! 2ss#e 5 5a6t t4at 4e 4as a le3al !e5ense as a %atte$ 5 la7 4e 4as nt
!ne t4at -#$ Hn$ 4e 4as 2!ent252e! nl8 a 6#ple 5 t42n3s an! !esp2te
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3$eat lat2t#!e ?8 t4e 6#$ts t t p$esent ev2!en6e an! esta?l2s4es le3al !e5ense
4e 4as 5a2le! t ! s NRS 99GA.F9: t4at 2s t4e $etal2at$8 ev26t2n stat#tes
n7 M$. C#34l2n 64se t 56#s n s#?se6t2n 9B a 6%pla2nt t4at 4e
6%pla2ne! 2n 3! 5a2t4 t t4e lan!l$! $ la7 en5$6e%ent a3en68 5$ a
v2lat2n 5 t42s 64apte$ $ 5 a spe62526 stat#te t4at 2%pses a 6$2%2nal penalt8
7e talCe! a?#t t42s at len3t4 t!a8 M$. C#34l2n 2!ent252e! ne e;%a2l 74264
4e a!%2tte! n a 6$ss eHa%2nat2n !es nt 2!ent258 a spe62526 stat#te t4at
2%pses a 6$2%2nal penalt8 an! I t42nC 7e nee! t ?e eHt$e%el8 6lea$. /2t4 t42s
stat#te t4e stat#te $e=#2$es t4e tenant 4as 6%pla2nt 2n 3! 5a2t4 t t4e lan!l$!
5 a spe62526 stat#te t4at 2%pses a 6$2%2nal l2a?2l2t8 4e !2! nt ! t4at 4e !2!
nt 2!ent258 a stat#te 4e alle3e! s%et42n3 a?#t s%e lan!s6ape$s !a%a3e!
t4e 6a$pet 4e,s $ea! n t4e la7n t4at !es nt sat2s58 t4e stat#te -#$ Hn$
%v2n3 !7n t4e stat#te t s#? EEE t4e tenant 4as 2nst2t#te! $ !e5en!e!
a3a2nst >#!262al $ a!%2n2st$at2ve p$6ee!2n3 $ a$?2t$at2n 2n 74264 t4e tenant
$a2se! an 2ss#e 5 6%pl2an6e 72t4 t4e $e=#2$e%ents 5 t42s 64apte$ $espe6t2n3
4a?2ta?2l2t8 5 !7ell2n3 2ts. T4at 6annt ?e. He nt26es t4e 52$st n 6a#se
te$%2nat2n nt26e t va6ate eH42?2t B 7as se$ve! n A#3#st ((1 (:99 M$.
C#34l2n !2! nt 2nst2t#te $ !e5en!ant an8 p$6ee!2n3 n an8 4a?2ta?2l2t8
2ss#es #nt2l a5te$ t4se nt26es 7e$e p$v2!e! D$. Me$l2ss 6an,t $etal2ate 5$
s%et42n3 t4at 2s 32n3 t 4appen 2n t4e 5#t#$e t4at 4as nt 4appene! 8et M$.
C#34l2n 6annt p$6ee! #n!e$ t4at stat#te t t4e eHtent M$. C#34l2n 2s
6%pla2n2n3 a?#t t42s s%all ?#s2ness 52$st 5 all t4e %a8 e;%a2l 2n EH42?2t G
!es nt =#al258 2n $ sat2s52e! t4e stat#tes $e3a$!2n3 nt26e t a lan!l$! a?#t
a 4a?2ta?2l2t8 2ss#es an! D$. Me$l2ss !$ve t42s p2nt 4%e 74en 4e test252e!
t4at 4e !2!n,t #n!e$stan! 74at M$. C#34l2n 7as asC2n3 5$ I %ean 25 8# lC
t4$#34 t4ese e;%a2ls 74at M$. C#34l2n !es 2s 4e 2!ent252es s%et42n3 4e
6la2%s 2s s%e s$t 5 p$?le% an! t4en 4e t$2es t ?a$3a2n s%e %ne8 55 5
t4e $ent 5$ 4e 4as nt p$!#6e! t %ean 4e !es nt sa8 2n t4en t4e8 e;%a2l
t42s 2s %8 nt26e t 8# #n!e$ NRS 99G A .)FF I a% 32n3 t 72t44l! t42s $ent
#nless 8# 52H t42s 4e >#st sa8s 7e,ve 3t t42s 2ss#e 4e 2s late$ 6%e 5$ t4e 6#$t
an! 4e 4as tl! 2t t4at 4e 52He! 2t t t4e t#ne 5 MF:: 7ell 4e 2s nt p$!#6e! 2n
$e6e2pt 2s nt p$!#6e! a ?2t $ 2nv26e 5$% 6nt$a6t$ 4e 4asn,t p$!#6e!
an8t42n3 5#$t4e$%$e -#$ Hn$ #n!e$ NRS 99G A)FF s t t4e tenant %a8
nt p$6ee! #n!e$ t42s se6t2n 25 t4e lan!l$!,s 2na?2l2t8 t a!e=#atel8 $e%e!8
t4e 5a2l#$e $ #se 42s ?est e55$ts t $e%e!8 t4e 5a2l#$e 72t42n 9< !a8s 2s !#e t
t4e tenant,s $e5#sal t all7 la75#l a66ess t !7ell2n3 #n2t as $e=#2$e! ?8 t4e
$ental a3$ee%ent $ t42s 64apte$ D$. Me$l2ss test252e! t4at 4e t$2e! t sen! Za64
Nas4 #t t4e$e 4e t$2e! t sen! Ran!8 F2s4e$ t4e 4an!8%an #t t4e$e t4e8
7e$en,t all7e! 2n n2ne -#$ Hn$ 25 t4e 6#$t 2s I 4ave t42s 3entle%an $ea!8
t test258 sne$ t t4at e55e6t neve$t4eless M$. C#34l2n 4e 6annt p$6ee!
#n!e$ t4e stat#te 4e 4as n !e5ense 25 4e !esn,t let t4e% 2n t 52H. /4at 2s %$e
-#$ Hn$ M$. C#34l2n 7ants t 56#s n t42s <G 4#$ nt26e #n!e$ t4e lease
25 M$. C#34l2n 2s t4e ne %aC2n3 a 6%pla2nt t4e 6%pla2nts a?#t t4ese
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alle3e! 2t !2s4es 6a%e all ?e2n3 ne 5 t4e% 74264 7e 4ave n p$5 5 t4at
t4e$e 2s %$e t4an t4e 4#se ?#t let,s >#st sa8 5$ a$3#%ents saCe 4e %aCes t4e
6%pla2nt t4en 4e 2s 7a2ve! t4e $234t t 42!e ?e42n! t4e nt26e p$v2s2n 5 t4e
lease $ at t4e ve$8 least s4#l! ?e a stp 5$% asse$t2n3 2t 2t,s 42s $e=#est t4at,s
74at 7e$e $#nn2n3 2nt an! t4at,s 74at 7e see 4e$e n eH42?2ts a t4$#34 I
-#$ Hn$ 4e$e. He 4e$e 4e 2s M$. C#34l2n %aCes a 6%pla2nt a?#t %l!
an! 2ns#lat2n an! 4e$e 2s D$. Me$l2ss 2%%e!2atel8 sa82n3 4e8 I,ll 3et
s%e?!8 #t t4e$e 72ll 3et t42s 52He! nte lC#p stat#t$8 nt26e NRS
2nspe6t2n lan!l$! tenant. M$. C#34l2n s4#l! ?e a stp 5$% t4e 5$% 42!2n3
?e42n! t4e nt26e p$v2s2n 2n t4e lease 72t4 $espe6t t Ran!8 F2s4e$ -#$
Hn$ I 7as nt a?le t p#t 42% n t4e stan! t!a8 ?#t M$. C#34l2n 7as
p$v2!e! 72t4 s#?stant2al nt26e %$e t4an <G 4#$s 5$ M$. F2s4e$ t 3
2nspe6t t4e 72n!7 2ss#e t4e$e 7as an ele6t$26al l2e! t4at,s M$. C#34l2n
2!ent252e!. M$. C#34l2n 6annt p$6ee! #n!e$ t4e $etal2at$8 #n!e$ t4e 4a?2t t
eH6#se %e #n!e$ t4e 4a?2ta?2l2t8 stat#tes 25 4e !esn,t all7 la75#l a66ess t t4e
p$pe$t8 2n an8 event -#$ Hn$ nt42n3 t4at M$. C#34l2n as nt even %a!e
an atte%pt %#64 less a s472n3 t t 4ave an8 5 t4e 2ss#es t4at 4e 2!ent252e! as
4a?2ta?2l2t8 t8pe 2ss#es t4e /2n!7s t4e sta2$s t4e 7ee!s t4e %l! 4e 2s nt
%a!e an8 atte%pt t 4ave t4se 52t #n!e$ t4e 4a?2ta?2l2t8 stat#te
Jud)e= 7ell I ten! t a3$ee t4at #n!e$ s#?se6t2n see $ EM s$$8 5 99GA.F9:
ne 4e 4e 4as t 4ave 2nst2t#te! $ !e5en!e! a3a2nst a >#!262al $ a!%2n2st$at2ve
p$6ee!2n3 ?ase! n 4a?2ta?2l2t8 74264 t4at 2s !255e$ent t4an 6%pla2n2n3 a?#t
4a?2ta?2l2t8 74264 4e 6an 2nte$ests t4$#34 a sepa$ate la7s#2t
Plaintiff= 8es
Jud)e= s I s2%pl8\ S2%pl8 6%pla2n2n3 a?#t 4a?2ta?2l2t8 2ss#es !es nt
sat2s58 t4e $etal2at$8 6n!#6t p$v2s2n
Plaintiff= t4at 2s eHa6tl8 $234t -#$ Hn$ an! 2n an8 event M$. C#34l2n 4as
nt s47n as 2s 42s ?#$!en t ! t4at an8 5 42s 6%pla2nts 7e$e 2n 3! 5a2t4
#n!e$ t4at stat#te $ t4at D$. Me$l2ss a6te! 2n a $etal2at$8 5as42n D$. Me$l2ss
sa2! I !2!n,t ev26t 8# ?e6a#se 5 t4ese t42n3s 8# !2!n,t pa8 8#$ $ent 7e t$2e!
t 4elp 8# 8# 7#l! let #s t4at,s nt $etal2at2n -#$ Hn$ 4e,s M$.
C#34l2n 2s atte%pt2n3 t %aCe l326al leaps ?et7een 42% t4$eaten2n3 t s#e
5$ $etal2at2n an! D$. Me$le 2s 42$2n3 #$ 5526e t4at t4at 2s 8# Cn7 pe$ se
$etal2at$8 7ell 74at a$e 8# s#ppse! t ! 74en 8#,$e tenant t4$eatens t
s#e 8# 8# 3tta 3et a la78e$ 2t,s >#st s2%pl8 nt $elevant 2n t4e l326al leave
2s nt t4e2$ S2$. -#$ Hn$ t4e nl8 2ss#e ?e5$e t4e 6#$t t!a8 42s pssess2n
5 t4e p$pe$t8 2n t4e 6#$t nt26e t42s an! 7e,ve 3ne ve$ t42s M$. C#34l2n
4as 3ne n an! n an! n a?#t ptent2al 6la2%s
C#34l2n -#$ Hn$ 2t,s ?een F %2n.
Jud)e= t4e8 4ave F %2n. a$e #p s 3 a4ea! M$. C#34l2n
C#34l2n t4anC 8# -#$ Hn$ >#st s2t at t4e #tset t4at I Cn7 I,ve ?een
6$2t26al 5 M$. Plaintiff= at s%e p2nt t4$#34#t t42s ?#t I ! t42nC D$. Me$le
#s 2s 3tten 42s %ne8,s 7$t4 2s 3tten s%e p$ett8 sl2! l2t23at2n3 2n %st
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$espe6ts -#$ Hn$ I 5eel p$ett8 st$n3l8 a?#t t42s 6ase ?#t I 6#l! see 74e$e
pss2?l8 s%e t4e$ peple 7#l! see t4e$ peple 5eels !255e$ent 7a8s I t42nC
2t 4as a lt t ! 72t4 %a8?e 74at 8# 7ant t42s !ate 2n t4e CD t ?e 25 8#
7ante! t ?e a ne 74e$e t4e peple 74 a$en,t t4at p7e$5#l !n,t 4ave %#64
%ne8 ?#t 74 !e%an!s t4at t4e la7 ?e 5ll7e! $ 25 8# 7ant t ?e a
s6a$62t8 l2Ce t4at I 3#ess 8# 7#l! $#le ne 7a8 ?#t 25 8#,$e 32n3 t $#le!
t4e t4e$ 7a8 2t see%s t %e t4at 8# 7#l! 4ave t %aCe s%e t$t#$#s
t72sts an! t#$n2n3 4e$ t 52n! t4at D$. Me$l2ss all t4e s#!!en !esn,t 3et 42s $ent
n A#3#st 99 4e 7aCes #p 2nspe6t t4e 6#nt$8 A#3#st 991 (:99 nt26es 42s
%$t3a3e 64e6C 4asn,t ?een 6%2n3 2n eve$8 !a8 n A#3#st 991 (:99 an e"mail
saying hey what's up with this I want my money I don't want to hear about your
complaints I want my money you're not gonna give me your money will guess
what I'm sending to people down there right now one today and one tomorrow
oh you want your notice guess what single further communications to my
attorney see how you li#e that #ic# you out on your ass 2n a ?23 8# an! t4at,s
47 2t 6%es a6$ss t %e an! t4at,s eHa6tl8 74at t4e le32slat#$e 2nten!e! t
p$event 72t4 99G A.F9:. It 4as ?een e!#6at2nal t %e an 2nte$est2n3 6e$ta2nl8
t t$8 t p$esent s%e 5 t4ese a$3#%ents >#st26e 6#$t $#le! Las Ve3as <<
6e$ta2nl8 4ave 3! $e5e$ t 8#$ vast ?$ea!t4 5 8#$ eHpe$2en6e an! 2ts
app$a64 2n 8#$ 6#$t$% t4e$e a$e 6ns2!e$2n3 8#$ ln3est ten#$e! %a8$
Ren,s 42st$8
Jud)e= s#$3en;es6$7 an8 p2nts 72t4 s
Defendant= n a?#t t$8 t s6$e p2nts -#$ Hn$ a% t$82n3 t val2!ate t
%8sel5 t4at s%ene 2s ?$2n32n3 t ?ea$ t 42s !e62s2n n t42s a?2l2t8 t see t4e
74le 52el!. /4at I,% 7$$2e! a?#t 2s 74at t42s !es t 7e 7ant t ?e Las
Ve3as ! 7e 7ant t ?e $#le << Las Ve3as 74e$e 2s s#64 a t$ans2ent 6%%#n2t8
peple a$e 4an!2n3 #t p$st2t#t2n pa%p4lets 3t all t42s s#pe$ Las Ve3as t8pe
st#55 32n3 n an! s t4e8 4a! t ena6t $#le << t all7 t4e% t ! 6e$ta2n
t42n3s t !eal 72t4 t4e 6$aJ2ness Ren,s nt Las Ve3as Ren 2s %nt4s t4e %st
7ell $ea! 62t2es 2n t4e 6#nt$8 I 7ent t la7 s64l Las Ve3as #n5a%2l2a$ 72t4
Las Ve3as I,% 5$% Ren #n5a%2l2a$ 72t4 Ren 2nvest2n3 2n tenants $234ts an! I
4ave a ?a6C3$#n! le3al se$v26es I 7$C 5$ /as4e le3al se$v26es t4e8 4ave a
lan!l$! tenant se6t2n t4e$e I !2!n,t 7$C an! I 7$Ce! as a !%est26 v2len6e
att$ne8 5$ a 742le ?#t 2nvest2n3 2n tenants $234ts 2s an 2nvest%ent 2n t4e
6%%#n2t8 an! t4at s%et42n3 t4at t42s 6%%#n2t8 nee!s at t42s ?#t t4anC 8#
-#$ Hn$;
Jud)e= al$234t I am prepared to rule an! I ! 52$st 5 all I do -ant to say I
a3no-led)e t#e defendant.s ar)u&ent -it# res!et to rule ,, And Justie
Court in Las Ve)as and I #a"e %een una%le to find a si&ilar rule -it#
res!et to Reno 0ustie ourt so &y deision -it# res!et to t#e esro-
&oney -ill %e se!arate fro& t#is ?#t I do find n#%?e$ ne t4at t4e lan!l$!
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met its burden of proof 72t4 $espe6t t #nla75#l !eta2ne$ t4at t4e eH42?2ts an!
t4e test2%n8 s#?%2tte! t t4e 6#$t spe62526all8 eH42?2t B t4e tenant 7as
nt252e! 5 t4e n 6a#se te$%2nat2n 2n a t2%el8 %anne$ and with proper service
eH42?2t C t4e tenant 7as nt252e! 52ve !a8 nt26e 5 #nla75#l !eta2ne$ an!
6%pl2an6e 72t4 t4e stat#te an! with proper service an! t4e$e5$e t4e !e5en!ant
7as an #nla75#l !eta2ne$ e55e6t2ve as 5 t4e !ate 5 t4e ?e32nn2n3 5 t4ese
p$6ee!2n3s 74264 7as n a$t2sts\ I'm sorry well certainly by $ctober 1
when the landlord's affidavit was filed ?#t 6e$ta2nl8 t!a8 72t4#t =#est2n
5#$t4e$ I 4ave 6ns2!e$e! t4e tenant,s a$3#%ents 72t4 $espe6t t 2t $etal2at2n
spe62526all8 #n!e$ 66+A.@6; -it# res!et to su%setion AaA alt#ou)# t#e
tenant #as o&!lained a%out "iolations of %uildin) #ousin) or #ealt# ode
I do not find t#ere is any e"idene t#at #e &ade said o&!laint to a
)o"ern&ent a)eny #ar)ed -it# res!onsi%ility for enfore&ent of t#at
ode.
Se6n!1 72t4 $espe6t t t4e s#?se6t2n AbA1 alt#ou)# defendant did present
evidence today of destruction of carpet and alleged that it was a crime under
!"S #$%&&# #'%(# #$%#)# t#ere is n ev2!en6e t4at sa2! 6%pla2nt 62te! a
specific statute t t4e lan!l$! %ut rat#er a )eneral o&!laint a%out t#e
struture of t#is ar!et and t#erefore I find it t#at su%setion of t#e statute
-as not sat2s52e! as 72ll 42% an! I furt#er find t#at e"en if it -as e"en if t#e
landlord 3ne- -#at you.re tryin) to say t#e landlord did not retaliate
a)ainst you for t#at t#e landlord e"ition -as %ased on non!ay&ent of
rent not your o&!lainin) of your destrution of ar!et and I also at t#e
!rior ourt !roeedin) I made findings with respect to the damages and
those damages in total were *(' and that was the outside number and so I
found that you owed at least *(' even giving you the benefit of all the
doubts and today there was evidence presented that the stairs were only *(' I
gave you *1'# for the stairs credit there was an e+mail presented today that
indicated that it's all you are as,ing for was *('%
Defendant= &ay I p$ese$ve %8 ?>e6t2n 5$ settle%ent 55e$s ?e2n3 a!%2tte!
Jud)e= 72ll 8# 6an $ese$ve 8#$ ?>e6t2n p$ese$vat2ve I a% %aC2n3 %8
52n!2n3s a$e nt 5
Jud)e= an! t4en with respect to the noxious weeds first of all I find that that
is not a habitability issue se6n! 5 all I 52n! t4at #n!e$ t4e lease 8# 7e$e
$e=#2$e! t %a2nta2n t4e la7n an! t42$! t42s 2s #n!e$ s#?se6t2n AaA1 you didn't
ma,e a complaint the governmental agency an! there is no evidence that you
did with respect to the no%ious weeds, as to the moldy insulation I do find t#at
t#at ould %e a #a%ita%ility issue learly ould %e. 9o-e"er$ a)ain under
66+A.@6; su%setion to ma,e it retaliatory it has to be have been presented
either in action suit% -y you or defendant against you against by you and the
judicial administrative proceeding or arbitration in which the tenant raised
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the issue of compliance with the re.uirements of habitability and since you
didn't raise this issue until after the landlord had in fact filed the complaint I
find t#at t#at it did not "iolate t#e #a%ita%ility statute did not "iolate t#e
retaliatory e"ition statute for all t#ose reasons I 52n! t4at t4e !e5ense 5
$etal2at2n !es nt %eet t4e $e=#2$e%ents 5 64apte$ <: spe62526all8 ne se6n!
4e$e spe62526all8 <:.(F) s#?se6t2ns ' &he 'ourt determines that there is not a
legal defense to the alleged unlawful detainer and therefore the court to this
grant the eviction with respect to the money in escrow the court finds that that
money is to the landlord 47eve$ I am not going to order that today since the
defendant is made argument that the court does not have enough fact a proper
rule with respect to escrow as similar to (as )egas !ustice court rule ** and
therefore since the tenant still has the ability to appeal 2n t42s %atte$ I -ill )i"e
#i& 6; days to file a !ro!er a!!eal -#i# is t#e statutory ti&e friend and if
#e does so t#at &oney -ill %e used to satisfy #is a!!eal %ond in t#is &atter
if #e does not do so t#en at t#at ti&e a !ro!er &otion an %e &ade %y
!laintiff.s ounsel on t#is &atter t4e ev26t2n 72ll ?e e55e6t2ve O6t?e$ )9 at F
PM.
Defendant= -#$ Hn$ 2s t4e I/0 status bearing on the appeal or is that a
whole new I/0 bond1
Jud)e= I !en2e! 8#$ IFP n t4e appeal but I am not sure if I actually did it in
writing S2$
Defendant= ?#t 8# 3$ante! t t4e 2nstant 6ase
Jud)e= I ?el2eve I !n,t $e6all
Plaintiff= ?#t 8# !en2e! 2t 5$ t4e appealK
Jud)e= well the thing is there is enough money deposited that you don't need
an I+, -ir
Plaintiff= it's all the money I have my name
Jud)e= while it may be but I am not releasing it to you but I am allowing you
to use it to satisfy the appeal bond in this case which would normally be three
months rent are I
Defendant= nt !#?leK
Jud)e= Ca8 I will grant your I/0 for this appeal if you go forward but the
appeal you filed was not a proper appeal Sir
Defendant= Ca8 at that point I get the rent escrow bac,K
Jud)e= n 8# don't get rent that what happens is it's gonna satisfy the appeal
bond pending your appeal to the District 'ourt
Defendant= s t4e t4e appeal ?n! t7a$! t4e IFP !esn,t appl8 t 2t
Jud)e= n. T4e 5 appeal ?n! a sepa$ate t4e IFP,s 5$ t4e 52l2n3 5ee t4at,s all
2t,s 3! 5$
Defendant= s%et2%es 2t 6ve$s !eps2t2ns an!
Jud)e= 7ell 2t,s nt ?een a 6ve$ 2n t42s 6ase a$e 5 A$t2e tl! 8#
Defendant= an! t4at,s 8#$ $#l2n3 $!e$s t4at
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Jud)e= !82n3 e%?e$s ?e6a#se 2t 7#l! ?e 2n D2st$26t C#$tK
Jud)e= 7ell 8# 6an a$3#e D2st$26t C#$t but it will be my ruling that you
have to post appeal bond post an appeal bond and I will since there's some
.uestion about the money and the escrow I am going to order that it satisfied
the appeal bond in this case
Defendant= n ?el2eve I filed an interlocutory appeal a?#t t4e es6$7
Jud)e= 8ea4 I Cn7 8# !2! ?#t so far as I'm concerned that was not a valid
appeal
Defendant= Ca8
Jud)e= ?#t 8# 6an 3 5$7a$! 72t4 t4at appeal t4at,s #p t 8# a$e nt 32n3
t a!v2se 8#
Defendant= ! 7e a!$ess t4e %t2n t sta8 4e$e t!a8 -#$ Hn$K
Jud)e= t4e %t2n t 74at =#est2n %a$C
Defendant= t4e motion to stay -#$ Hn$
Jud)e= the motion to dismiss is denied writing get a stay from the District
'ourt if you want
Defendant= o#ay maybe I don't want to address the motion the state today if
that's all the inquiry that's going to be too voted to it devoted to it
B#!3e& I 4ave $ea! !#$2n3 t4e $e6ess 8#$ ?$2e5s an! st#55 ?#t I,% !en82n3 a
%t2n t sta8 R264a$! B$2ssn st#55 I,% !en82n3 a %t2n t sta8 s 2t,s 6lea$
Plaintiff= -#$ Hn$ I 4ave t7 =#26C p2nts 72t4 $espe6t t an appeal ?n!
D$. Me$l2ss 2s ent2tle! t an a7a$! 5 5ees #n!e$ NRS <:.(F< s#? t4$ee #n!e$
NRS <:.(F< s#? t4$ee
Jud)e= 74at 8# 6an p$epa$e p$pe$ %e%$an!#% 5 6sts an! 5ees
Plaintiff= 8es $ 7e 72ll
Defendant= a p$eva2l2n3 pa$t8 $ 2n s%e e3$e32#s 62$6#%stan6es 8# 3et
t4eseK
Plaintiff= 2t,s 2n t4e stat#te
Jud)e= it.s in t#e statute under #a!ter ,; in fat t#ey an )et three times
the rent too
Defendant= 5$ 74en t4e ne$ve ?e6a#se s%e?!8 >#st
Jud)e= t4e8 6#l! 8# nee! t $ea! t4e stat#te
Plaintiff= %8 p2nt 2n ?$2n32n3 t4at #p -#$ Hn$ 2s t4at 7e 72ll ?e asC2n3 5$
t4at t4se 5ees ?e 6ns2!e$e! pa$t 5 t4e appeal ?n! 2n a!!2t2n t t4e %ne8
al$ea!8 72t4 t4e 6#$t I %ean M$. 8# seen t4e ?$2e5s D$. Me$l2ss 4as 2n6#$$e!
s#?stant2al a%#nt 5 5ees
Jud)e= 7ell I #n!e$stan! ?#t I !n,t even 4ave 8#$ %e%$an!#% 5 6sts an!
5ees
Plaintiff= 7e 72ll %aCe t4e %t2n
Jud)e= 8# %aCe t4e p$pe$ %t2n an! I 72ll !e62!e 2t
Plaintiff= t4anC 8# -#$ Hn$
Jud)e= 2t !esn,t 4ave t ?e !e62!e! t!a8
Plaintiff= t4at,s t$#e -#$ Hn$
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Jud)e= an! 2n t4e %eant2%e t4e %ne8,s nt 32n3 an874e$e n$ ! I ?el2eve
t42s !e5en!ant 2s 32n3 t 6%e #p 72t4 %$e %ne8
Plaintiff= -#$ Hn$ 7e 7#l! l2Ce t asC t4e 6#$t 5$ pe$%2ss2n t 2nspe6t
t4e p$pe$t8 p$2$ t O6t?e$ )9 7e,ve atte%pte! t 2nspe6t 2n t4e past ?#t 7e
a$e ve$8 6n6e$ne! a?#t t4e p$pe$t8 ?e2n3 !a%a3e! ?et7een n7 an! t4en
Jud)e= I have already told you t4at I 7#l! all7 2n $!e$ t 2nspe6t t4e
p$pe$t8 all72n3 $!e$ t 2nspe6t t4e p$pe$t8 an! 74at 2s 8#$ ps2t2n n
t4at as t a t2%e 74en 2t 6#l! ?e a66%%!ate! S2$ ne7l8 6#34 an! 8# sa2!
%8 ps2t2n n t4e t2%e t a66%%!ate t4at an! let
Jud)e= 8ea4
Defendant= t42s e%e$3en68 nee! t 2nspe6t 2t ?e6a#se 2t,s 3! t ?e e%pt2e! 2n
s2H !a8s %8 ps2t2n 2s t4at 2t s46Cs t4e 6ns62en6e
Jud)e= 72ll Ca8 I 72ll 3$ant t4e $!e$ <G 4#$s 5$% t!a8
Plaintiff= <G 4#$s 5$% t!a8 7e 6an an! spe6s a$e
Jud)e= 8es
Defendant= an! I >#st l2Ce t p$ese$ve 5$ t4e appeal all t4e e3$e32#s 6n!#6t
?8 t4e p$6ess se$ve$ an! all t4ese t4e$s t4e$ %atte$s
Jud)e= what you can preserve everything you want Sir what you can preserve
everything you want Sir
Plaintiff= s4all I p$esent p$epa$e an $!e$ 6#$t
Jud)e= 8# 6an p$epa$e t4e order
Plaintiff= I %ean 5$ t4e ent2$e t42n3
Jud)e= 8# 6an p$epa$e findings of fact and conclusions of law an! a
judgment 25 8# 72s4
Defendant= 6an I -#$ Hn$K
Jud)e= 8es 8# 3et 25 8# 7ant t ! 2t an! 4e 6an lC at 2t ?#t I 7#l!
s#33est t4at t4e pla2nt255 p$epa$e! an! s#?%2tte! t 8# 5$ 6%%ents
Defendant= 7ell 4e 2s t4e ne 74 3t ne 8ea$s $ent t l2t23ate t42s 6ase s
Jud)e= ne 8ea$s $entK
Ba2t C#34l2n
Plaintiff= an! #n!e$stan! e2t4e$ S#$$e8
Defendant= 8ea4 D::H9( %nt4s
Plaintiff= all p$epa$e t4e $!e$ an! s#?%2t 2t C#34l2n 5$ 42s $ev2e7
Jud)e= Ca8 74at 8# nee! t 3et 2t !ne 8# 6an ?t4 p$epa$e $!e$s an! all
p26Ce! t4e ne I 7ant t s23n
Plaintiff= 8#,ll 4ave ?8 t%$$7 ans7e$
Jud)e= 74en 72ll 8ea$s ?e 2n M$. C#34l2n 74en 72ll 8#$s ?e 2n M$. C#34l2n
Defendant= 7ell I 72ll 4ave t lC at 74at $e6$!s n t4e -#$ Hn$ $e6$!s
n t4at -#$ Hn$
Jud)e= 7ell 25 2t,s I,% 32n3 t 32ve 8# t!a8 2s /e!nes!a8 2t 72ll 4ave t ?e
!ne ?8 T4#$s!a8 %eause I -ill %e si)nin) an order on T#ursday no later
t#an noon on T#ursday
Plaintiff= nn n T4#$s!a8 8es $
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Jud)e= al$234t 8,all 4ave a 3! !a8
Plaintiff= t4anC 8#
Defendant= t4anC 8# s2$.A

Its =#2te 6lea$ t4at t4e s#%%a$8 ev26t2n $!e$ as $en!e$e! 5$% t4e ?en64 ?8
>#st26e 6#$t B#!3e S5e$$aJJa n 9:@(*@99 !epa$ts %a$Ce!l8 5$% t4e p$se!
O$!e$ t4at H2ll,s ass62ate BaCe$ 7as a?le t 3et B#!3e S5e$$aJJa t s23n1 ?#t
$e3a$!less1 B#!3e S5e$$aJJa,s $!e$s@$#l2n3s 5$% $en!e$e! 5$% t4e ?en64 at t4e
6n6l#s2n 5 t4e 99@*@99 4ea$2n3 2n t4e >#st26e 6#$t a%en!e! s#64 9:@(*@99
FOFCOLOSE1 as 7ell.
B#!3e S5e$$aJJa,s F2n!2n3s 5 Fa6t1 Cn6l#s2ns 5 La71 an! O$!e$ 5$ S#%%a$8
Ev26t2n 5 9:@(*@991 $ea!s& AFINDINGS OF FACT1 CONCLUSIONS OF LA/1
AND ORDER FOR SUMMAR- EVICTION
T42s &atter #a"in) o&e on re)ularly for an e"identiary #earin)
!ursuant to NRS ,;.:@, and NRS ,;.:@F?G> on Oto%er 6F$ :;66$ and
continued on Oto%er :@$ :;661 ?e5$e t4e Hn$a?le Pete$ B. S5e$$aJJa1 s2tt2n3
72t4#t a >#$8; t4e pla2nt255@lan!l$!1 Matt Me$l2ss; 0AMe$l2ssA"1 4av2n3 ?een
p$esent1 an! $ep$esente! ?8 6#nsel1 R264a$! G. H2ll1 C4a$te$e! an! Case8 D.
BaCe$1 Es=.1 an! !e5en!ant@tenant1 Za64a$8 Ba$Ce$ C#34l2n1 Es=. 0AC#34l2nA"1
4av2n3 ?een p$esent an! 4av2n3 p$6ee!e! 2n p$pe$ pe$sn; t4e pa$t2es 4av2n3
55e$e! ev2!en6e1 6alle! 72tnesses an! 4av2n3 55e$e! a$3#%ent; t4e %atte$ 4av2n3
?een s#?%2tte! t t4e C#$t 5$ a !e62s2n; t4e C#$t ?e2n3 5#ll8 2n5$%e! 2n t4e
p$e%2ses an! 3! 6a#se appea$2n3 t4e$e5$; t4e C#$t 4e$e72t4 ente$s 2ts 52n!2n3s
5 5a6t1 6n6l#s2ns 5 la7 an! $!e$ 5$ s#%%a$8 ev26t2n&
FINDINGS OF FACT
T4e C#$t 52n!s t4e 5ll72n3 5a6ts&
9. 2erliss is the owner of the real property l6ate! at 9(9 R2ve$ R6C1 Ren1
Neva!a 0t4e AP$pe$t8A".
(. T4e tenan68 at 2ss#e 6%%en6e! n Ma$64 91 (:9:1 and was for a term of 1
months.
). T4e rental agreement terminated by its terms on /ebruary 3, #11. T4e$ea5te$1
C#34l2n ?e6a%e a %nt4 t %nt4 tenant p#$s#ant t NRS 99GA.<*: and
paragraph & of the parties' rental agreement.
<. C#34l2n %ea&e su%0et to t#e !ro"isions 5 NRS <:.(F9 t <:.(F9'1
2n6l#s2ve1 at the end of the stated term of the rental agreement1 74e$e#pn 4e
?e6a%e a %nt4]t;%nt4 tenant1 as nte! a?ve.
F. On Au)ust ::$ :;66$ /erliss properly and lawfully terminated Cou)#lin.s
&ont#1to1&ont# tenany !ursuant to NRS ,;.:@61 ?8 se$v2n3 t4e stat#t$8 N;
Ca#se Te$%2nat2n Nt26e t Va6ate NRS <:.(F909" #pn 42%1 74264 nt26e 7as
a!%2tte! 2nt ev2!en6e at t4e 4ea$2n3. T4e court specifically finds that service of
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that notice was proper p#$s#ant t1 an! 5$ all p#$pses 6nte%plate! #n!e$1 NRS
,;.:+;.
'. C#34l2n 5a2le! t va6ate t4e P$pe$t8 72t42n ): 6alen!a$ !a8s of being served
72t4 t4e nt26e t va6ate1 an! 7as t4e$e5$e 2n #nla75#l !eta2ne$ 5 t4e P$pe$t8 as
5 Septe%?e$ (*1 (:991 at t4e latest.
*. On Se!te&%er :7$ :;66$ /erliss properly served Cou)#lin -it# a <i"e1Day
Notie of 2nla-ful Detainer <or <ailure to Vaate Rental 2nit 1NRS ,;.:@6
?No1Cause Ter&ination> and Notie of Su&&ary E"ition 1NRS ,;.:@,$ -#i#
notie -as ad&itted into e"idene at t#e #earin). T4e 6#$t specifically finds
that service of that notice was proper pursuant to, and for all purposes
contemplated under, !"S )#%3#.
G. Me$l2ss, claim for relief of possession of the premises was authori4ed by law.
D. C#34l2n alle3e!1 as a le3al !e5ense t t4e s#%%a$8 ev26t2n1 $etal2at$8 6n!#6t
?8 Me$l2ss #n!e$ va$2#s s#?se6t2ns 5 NRS 99GA.F9:. C#34l2n,s alle3e! !e5ense
7as 5#$t4e$ ?ase!1 2n pa$t1 n 74at 4e 2!ent252e! as A4a?2ta?2l2t8A 2ss#es1 an! 42s
alle3e! 6%pla2nts $e3a$!2n3 sa%e. C#34l2n 5#$t4e$ alle3e! t4at Me$l2ss a6te! 2n a
!2s6$2%2nat$8 %anne$ t7a$! 42% ?ase! n C#34l2n,s $a6e1 nat2nal $232n1 an!
seH.
9:. T4e 6#$t 52n!s t4at C#34l2n 5a2le! t p$esent an8 ev2!en6e t4at Me$l2ss a6te!
2n an8 p$42?2te!1 !2s6$2%2nat$81 $ $etal2at$8 5as42n as alle3e! ?8 C#34l2n1 $
t4e$72se. Spe62526all81 t4e 6#$t 52n!s&
9:.9. C#34l2n 5a2le! t p$esent an8 ev2!en6e t4at 4e Acomplained 2n 3!
5a2t4 5 a v2lat2n 5 a ?#2l!2n31 4#s2n3 $ 4ealt4 6!e appl26a?le t t4e p$e%2ses
an! a55e6t2n3 4ealt4 $ sa5et8 t a 3ve$n%ental a3en68 64a$3e! 72t4 t4e
$espns2?2l2t8 5$ t4e en5$6e%ent 5 t4at 6!eA as $e=#2$e! ?8 NRS 99GA.F9:09"
0a".
9:.(. C#34l2n failed to !resent any e"idene t#at #e Acomplained in good faith
to the landlord or a la- enfore&ent a)eny of a violation of 5!"S 6hapter
11378 or of a s!eifi statute t#at i&!oses a ri&inal !enaltyA as $e=#2$e! ?8
NRS 99GA.F9:09"0?"
9:.)] C#34l2n 5a2le! t p$esent an8 ev2!en6e t4at prior to being served with
the referenced termination and eviction notices1 C#34l2n 4a! A2nst2t#te! $
!e5en!e! a3a2nst a >#!262al $ a!%2n2st$at2ve p$6ee!2n3 $ a$?2t$at2n 2n 74264 S4eT
$a2se! an 2ss#e 5 6%pl2an6e 72t4 t4e $e=#2$e%ents 5 SNRS C4apte$ 99GAT
$espe6t2n3 t4e 4a?2ta?2l2t8 5 !7ell2n3 #n2tsA as $e=#2$e! ?8 NRS 99GA.F9:09"0e".
9:.< C#34l2n 5a2le! t p$esent an8 ev2!en6e t4at 4e 4a! A6%pla2ne! 2n
3! 5a2t4 to the landlord1 a 3ve$n%ent a3en681 an attorney1 a 5a2$ 4#s2n3 a3en68
$ an8 t4e$ app$p$2ate ?!8 5 a v2lat2n 5 NRS 99G.:9: t 99G.9(:1 2n6l#s2ve1
$ t4e Fa2$ H#s2n3 A6t 5 9D'G1 <( U.S.C. EE )':9 et se=.1 $ 4aS!T t4e$72se
eHe$62se! $234ts 74264 a$e 3#a$antee! $ p$te6te! #n!e$ t4se la7sA as $e=#2$e! ?8
NRS 99GA.F9:09"03".
99. C#34l2n failed to present any evidence that the 0roperty was at any time not
habitable1 as t4at te$% 2s !e52ne! 2n NRS 99GA.(D:1 $ t4e$72se1 72t4 $espe6t t
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an8 5 t4e alle3e! !e5262en62es 2!ent252e! ?8 42%. T4se alle3e!1 ?#t #np$ven1
!e5262en62es 2n6l#!e!1 ?#t 7e$e nt l2%2te! t1 t4e 5$nt an! ?a6C steps1 an8 ?$Cen
72n!71 any alleged mold1 an8 5all2n3 2ns#lat2n1 t4e 3a$?a3e !2spsal1 an! any
weeds n t4e P$pe$t8.
99.9. /2t4 respect to any weeds n t4e P$pe$t81 t4e court further
specifically finds that the maintenance of the surrounding grounds, including weed
control1 7as t4e sle $espns2?2l2t8 5 C#34l2n under paragraph 22 of the parties'
rental agreement.
9(. C#34l2n 5a2le! t p$esent an8 ev2!en6e t4at 4e 6%pl2e!1 $ t4at Me$l2ss 5a2le!
t 6%pl81 72t4 an8 $e=#2$e%ent set 5$t4 2n NRS 99GA.)FF an! NRS 99GA.)':1
74264 stat#tes a!!$ess t4e 72t44l!2n3 5 $ent 5$ alle3e! A4a?2ta?2l2t8A 2ss#es.
9(.9. As s#641 t4e ourt finds t#at Cou)#lin was not entitled to withhold
any rent %ased on any alle)ed A#a%ita%ilityA issue$ or ot#er-ise$ and that all
sums heretofore deposited by 6oughlin pursuant to the 6ourt's order dated
9ctober 1&, #11, rightfully belong to 2erliss as and for past due rent.
9). I5 an8 52n!2n3 5 5a6t a?ve 2s1 2n 5a6t1 a 6n6l#s2n 5 la71 2t s4#l! ?e $e3a$!e!
as s#641 an! 2ts val2!2t8 s4#l! nt ?e a55e6te! ?8 74e$e 2n t42s !e62s2n 2t 2s
l6ate!.
CONCLUSIONS OF LA/
T4e C#$t 6n6l#!es t4e 5ll72n3 as t4e 6nt$ll2n3 la7 2n t42s 6ase&
9. T4e Court #as 0urisdition o"er t#e !arties and subject matter of this
case. Ven#e 2s app$p$2ate 2n t42s 6#$t.
(. T4e #lt2%ate 2ss#e ?e5$e t4e 6#$t at t4e $e5e$en6e! 4ea$2n3 7as t4e $234t
5 t4e lan!l$!1 Me$l2ss1 t 2%%e!2ate pssess2n 5 t4e P$pe$t8. NRS <:.(F<.
NRS <:.(F)0'".
). T4e !ur!ose of t#e #earin) -as to Adeter&ine t#e trut#fulness and
suffiieny of t#e tenant.s and t#e landlord.s affida"its$A to deter&ine -#et#er
t#ere is any Ale)al defense as to t#e alle)ed unla-ful detainer1A an! 74et4e$
At4e tenant 2s 3#2lt8 5 an #nla75#l !eta2ne$A. NRS <:.(F)0'".
F. ASATn $!e$ 3$ant2n3 s#%%a$8 ev26t2n #n!e$ NRS <:.(F)0'" s4#l! ?e
$ev2e7e! n appeal ?ase! #pn t4e stan!a$! 5$ $ev2e7 5 an $!e$ 3$ant2n3
s#%%a$8 >#!3%ent #n!e$ NRCP F' ?e6a#se t4ese p$6ee!2n3s a$e anal3#s.A
Anv#21 LLC v. C.L. D$a3n1 LLC1 9() Nev. (9(1 (9F1 9') P.)! <:F 0(::*".
'. AT s#66ess5#ll8 !e5en! a3a2nst a s#%%a$8 >#!3%ent %t2n1 t4e
nn%v2n3 pa$t8 must transcend the pleadings and, by affidavit or other
admissible evidence, introduce specific facts that show a genuine issue of material
fact.A T$$eal?a v. +es%2l2s1 9(< Nev. DF1 9*G P.)! *9' 0(::G".
*. C#34l2n failed to show that any genuine issue of material fact remains
for trial. As s#641 C#34l2n failed to meet his burden of proof to establish any legal
defense to the summary eviction. Anv#2. :orrealba.
G. As no issues of fact had yet been presented to the court to warrant a
trial1 C#34l2n 7as nt ent2tle! t 4ave t4e s#%%a$8 ev26t2n 4ea$2n3 4ea$! ?8
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7as #nt2%el81 2n an8 event. NBCRCP )G.
D. P#$s#ant t NRS <:.(F)0'"1 Me$l2ss 2s ent2tle! t 2%%e!2ate pssess2n 5
t4e p$pe$t8.
ORDER FOR SUMMAR- EVICTION
Lan!l$!1 MATT MERLISS1 having applied by 7ffidavit for an 9rder
see,ing summary eviction of the above+named :enant and it appearing from the
record on file herein that the statutory re.uirements have been met an! t4at t4e
Tenant1 a5te$ nt26e1 #nla75#ll8 !eta2ns an! 72t44l!s t4e $ental #n2t1 an! t4e C#$t
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request for Lindsay's fax to RJC Clifton of 3/5/13
RE: Notice of Appearances filed in which cases?
From: Zach Coughlin (zachcoughlin@hotmail.com)
Sent: Wed 7/17/13 2:53 PM
To: Robert Lindsay (rbrucelindsaylaw@yahoo.com)
21 attachments
7 8 13 6 19 13 stamped first pt ex 1 in 61383 0204 65630 71437
63341 67980 72675 Notice Motion Request global resolution
handwritten on dockets.pdf (2.1 MB) , 1 11 13 correct formatting 0204
067980 1048 12420 email to Lindsay RBL.pdf (292.1 KB) , 1 17 13
0204 email to Lindsay 067980.pdf (744.0 KB) , 1 17 13 email that
was also faxed to fbl@robertbrucelindsay.com Lindsay 0204
067980.pdf (159.6 KB) , 1 18 13 to 3 15 13 emails between Coughlin
and Lindsay 0204 AO12-01 063341 067980 065630 71437 printed
just from coughlin to lindsay.pdf (3.0 MB) , 2 21 13 0204 063341
067980 email to WCDA DDA Young and Lindsay update on
NNAHMS request for continuance of 2 25 12 Hearing in 063341.pdf
(164.9 KB) , 2 25 13 email from Lindsay's re update on NNAHMS
indicating DDA Young informed her hearing on 2 25 13 was
cancelled.pdf (190.0 KB) , 3 5 13 0204 0204 AO12-01 065630
067980 063341 Lindsay fax cover sheet for letter to Clifton seeking
continuance of 3 5 13 Show Cause Hearing in AO12-01, Pear.pdf
(404.4 KB) , 3 11 13 0204 071437 063341 Motion to Remove
Lindsay as Co-Counsel 2 25 13 OSC 2 1 13 DAS arrest.pdf (924.1
KB) , 3 12 13 0204 063341 071437 067980 AO12-01 Fax cover sheet
from RJC Lori Townsend to Lindsay's Office Minutes from OSC
addressed getting mental eval and Administrative Order, silent on
Bailiffs manufacture DAS missed check in.pdf (637.5 KB) , 5 23 13
0204 063341 ao1201 071437 Motion to Remove Bruce Lindsay, Esq.
as atty of record and notice of appeal of any orders purporting to
continue Admin Order RJC.pdf (710.8 KB) , 7 2 12 0204 RJC
eviction 1048 RCR12-067980 Case Summary Docket Lindsay
numerous continuances 6 14 12 5 Day UD Notice fraudulent and listed
Sparks JC NRS 40.253.pdf (378.5 KB) , 12 28 12 R Bruce Lindsay
$700 bill for representation in 067980 failed to move for competency
Docket 62337 Document 2013-21067
eval prior to 1 22 13 trial date in 065630.pdf (381.4 KB) , 5 16 13
0204 067980 Docket as of update since 4 1 13.pdf (361.1 KB) , 5 16
13 0204 063341 Docket as of OCR.pdf (1783.5 KB) , 5 16 13 0204
065630 complete as of.pdf (1501.0 KB) , 2 25 13 to 3 14 13 0204
071437 65630 63341 67980 all emails from Lindsay's
rbrucelindsaylaw@yahoo.com address.pdf (2.1 MB) , 5 16 13 0204
71437 Docket as of OCR.pdf (303.5 KB) , 5 16 13 0204 067980
Docket as of update since 4 1 13.pdf (361.1 KB) , 5 16 13 0204
063341 Docket as of OCR.pdf (1783.5 KB) , 5 16 13 0204 065630
complete as of.pdf (1501.0 KB)
Dear Law Office of R. Bruce Lindsay,
I am writing to request a copy of the fax that was read to me over the phone
that your office sent RJC Judge Clifton on 3/5/13. Please note that on the
attached docket for that matter, therein is listed a 3/5/13 Order to Show Cause
Hearing.
Whether Mr. Lindsay was directly made appointed counsel pursuant to some
NCJC Canon 2 Rule 2.13 "Administrative Appointment" or not, he appeared
in the matter, and, therefore, was required to obtain an Order, in writing,
allowing his withdrawal, before his non-appearance at the 3/19/13 Trial in
RCR2012-065630 would be acceptable.
Further, as to being "reinstated" into DAS in RCR2013-071437, that would
imply Coughlin was ever instated into DAS in that matter to begin with, and,
given that such matter was only given a case number on 3/14/13, and the
alleged "reinstatement" was ordered on 3/11/13, such is not possible. Further,
for a criminal case matter such as RCR2013-071437 there needs to be a
charging document, and the associated probable cause sheet and arrest report,
or citation. Please provide that. Without that, there really is no "case" for Mr.
Linsday to be quadruple billing on. That is, getting paid four times to do
nothing once. A real 401K (4 times to do nothing ("0") once ("1"), 'kay?
Whether Mr. Lindsay agreed to appear on RCR2012-065630 in consideration
for some acquiescence on Coughlin's part to Lindsay partaking in such a 401K
approach to Administrative Appointments, on the condition that the global
resolution (resolving all criminal matters (ie, Lindsay has never been given
permission to appear in the matter of the 12/20/12 "Administrative Order
2012-01 In the Matter of Zachary Coughlin", no matter which case the RJC
shoehorns such into, then move it out of, then gives a new criminal case
number on 3/14/13, etc.) in which Coughlin has ever been a party in the RJC
in a manner which would result in Coughlin having no SCR 111(6) "serious"
offense convictions, and in accord with the 8/27/12 plea bargain deal
Coughlin accepted.
ON 3/14/13 Lindsay's Office wrote "I need to clarify with you that Mr. Lindsay was
appointed to the following cases in Court to wit;
RCR2013-71437 the contempt charges that you were reinstated into DAS and CCP
RCR2011-063341 petty larceny matter that you were already convicted on but again for the contempt of
court matters."
The thing is both Lindsay and the RJC/WCDA need to be clear as to what "contempt of court matters" fit into
which case, and in which "case" (as RCR2013-071437 is an example of the judiciary attempting to usurp the
executive branch's prosecutorial charging function) is any "reinstating" to DAS even possible (not to mention
that "reinstating" Coughlin into CCP when he was never placed in CCP in the first place is a logical fallacy).
RCR 12-067980 obstructing justice and resisting case that has been set for a pretrial on April 16, 2013.
Apparently the case that is going to trial on Tuesday 03-19-13, is Case No. RCR2012-065630 and as you
indicated the Judge specifically stated that no additional counsel would be appointed on this case,"
Hopefully, Mr. Lindsay is aware that there are other circumstances wherein he could appear as attorney of
record, beyond just being appointed by "Dave" (as Mr. Linsday referred to Judge Clifton in suddenly
explaining the welching on the "global resolution" that Mr. Lindsay and his assistant Diana Simms explained
to Coughlin that both RJC Judges Pearson and Clifton and the WCDA's Office DDA Young had agreed to,
when Coughlin queried Lindsay as to why, if there was a global resolution done, there was still going to be a
trial held on 3/19/13 in RCR2012-065630).
Further the 2006 LA Times article on Administrative Appointments and the problems associated therewith
in the judiciary in Nevada and the changes in Nevada law that such glaring consternation begat has become
exceedingly relevant in the context of Mr. Lindsay's appearance as attorney of record in these matters (the
excuse that Lindsay was only "appointed" in RCR2012-065630 for the 2/13/13 hearing on some alleged
Order to Show Cause (please provide a complete copy of the discovery, charging document, and rest of
the file in that matter) does not fly where Sims admits that Lindsay appeared as attorney of record in that
matter, and sent a 3/5/13 fax to the RJC addressed to Judge Clifton, baring the case number RCR2012-
065630 seeking a continuance of the 3/5/13 hearing on the Order to Show Cause (again, the entry in the
docket of RCR2012-065630 of a 3/5/13 Order to Show Cause hearing is extremely problematic for both
the RJC and Mr. Linsday, and is integral to the misconduct issues arising in the appeal of that matter in
CR13-0614).
Simply put, being court appointed is not the only manner in which Lindsay may appear in a matter, and once
he appears (as he did in RCR2012-065630, at least as early as the 3/5/13 fax to the RJC seeking a
continuance of the 3/5/13 Order to Show Cause Hearing listed in the docket therein (see NRS 4.240
docket entries in justice courts are prima facie evidence of fact) he is bound by the Rules of Professional
Conduct, which would apply to his failure to appear at the 3/19/13 trial in that matter, not to mention his
completely welching on the "global resolution", his failing to appear at any of the CCP hearings (despite his
express indication that he would), and his indicating to Coughlin both before, during, and after, the 3/11/13
Order to Show Cause hearing(s) that nothing more than a two week continuance as to any of the matters
being addressed was being ordered, and that a global resolution had been agreed to by the WCDA, which
Lindsay also indicated had been approved by both RJC Judges Pearson and Clifton (and the welshing on
that deal no makes extraordinarily suspect the RJC's contention that it need not proved the alleged
"contempt" or "probation violation" in RCR2011-063341 (which is an entirely specious charge, and the
RJC's now seeking to characterize such 2/1/13 arrest as one premised upon a warrant, when, clearly, the
Arrest Report and Declaration of Probable Cause by DAS Officer Wickman and Ramos reveals a listing of
NRS 211A.125, the warrantless arrest of a probationer statue (and where the "warrant #" box is crossed
out, and considering the docket in RCR2011-063341 clearly reveals the warrant issued on 1/9/13 was
clearly withdrawn on 1/10/13...meaning there was no "warrant arraignment" on 2/4/13, and the fact that
such DAS arrest occurred at 7:02 pm, as listed on the Arrest Report, makes such a wrongful arrest in
violation of NRS 171.136's restriction against warrantless misdemeanor arrests between the hours of 7 am
and 7 pm, not to mention that the alleged "probable cause" for such arrest is entirely suspect given the
multitude of issues respecting the specious allegations that Coughlin "failed to check in" with DAS on either
1/2/13 or 1/23/13...)
NRS 22.030 Summary punishment of contempt committed in immediate view and presence of court;
affidavit or statement to be filed when contempt committed outside immediate view and presence of
court; disqualification of judge.
2. If a contempt is not committed in the immediate view and presence of the court or judge at
chambers, an affidavit must be presented to the court or judge of the facts constituting the contempt, or
a statement of the facts by the masters or arbitrator
Further, the extent to which then Chief Judge Sferrazza's 12/20/12 Administrative Order (now, allegedly, a
criminal case in RCR2013-071437) blatantly misstates Art. 6 Sec. 6 of the Constitution of the State of
Nevada (such authority is accorded to "District courts", not "Nevada courts", and further, as to the
11/28/12 Order by then Chief Judge Sferrazza in "ALL CASES ALL DEPARTMENTS" barring Coughlin
from fax filing with the RJC, citing to JCRRT 10 when JCRRT 2 clearly reveals that such local rules do not
apply to either landlord tenant matters or criminal cases, makes that Administrative Order, the 2/25/13
Order to Show Cause stemming from it, and Bruce Lindsay, Esq.'s 401K approach to "representation" all
the more dubious and deserving of consternation, particularly given that extremely blase attitude of all
involved with respect to ameliorating the damages done by such apparent misconduct, made worse by the
RJC's failure to provide Coughlin the 2/4/13 and 2/5/13 JAVS recordings he has request (law of the case
incident to the IFP Order on file therein makes the unattributed refusal by some RJC Clerk (likely Robbin
Baker) to process and provide such JAVS recording, extremely suspect, especially considering the import
of the CR13-0552 Petition for Writ of Mandamus that Coughlin filed to address the NRS 178.405
violations in RCR2012-065630, and concomitant, potential SCR 111(6) "serious" offense conviction
stemming therefrom).
Further the unattributed and dubious allegations in the 2/25/13 Order to Show Cause require someone put
such assertions in an affidavit under NRS 22.030(2)
03/05/2013: CANCELED Order 10 Show Cause (2:00 PM) (Judicial Officer: Pearson, Scott) Vacated (that is
the actual docket entry in RCR2012-065630)
Further, the extent to which the WCDA and RJC gave Lindsay continuance after continuance in RCR2012-
067980 where Coughlin was routinely denied any continuances he requested (and, especially where on
2/5/13, the WCDA and both Judges Pearson and Clifton violated NRS 178.405's mandatory stay pending
the outcome of a competency evaluation dictate...which is made all the more dubious given the RJC's
repeated failure to turn over the JAVS recording of those 2/5/13 hearings before Judge Pearson (the first
one at 8:30 am, where Judge Pearson entered an Order for Competency Evaluation requiring Judge Clifton
stay the trial in RCR2013-065630, and the second hearing, where WCDA Z. Young was somehow able to
summon Judge Pearson for an Emergency Hearing to Set Aside such Order, despite NRS 178.405 making
such Motion forbidden (and the State wants to whine about such order being garnered "ex parte" at the
2/5/13 8:30 am hearing, well...show up, State, don't rely on DAS Officers to commit the unauthorized
practice of law on your behalf (they are witnesses, they belong were witnesses belong, not at the
prosecutors table making argument).
Further, the email from Lindsay's office of 3/14/13 fails to acknowledge the appointment of Lindsay in
RCR2012-065630 (whether limited to the 2/13/13 Order to Show Cause hearing or not).
Further, the email Lindsay's Motion to Withdraw in RCR2012-067980 was not granted, making even more
problematic the fact that Lindsay threatened to murder Coughlin on 3/16/13 by asserting that he would "rip
each of your limbs off your body" to Coughlin over the telephone.
Luckily, there is still an argument that the RJC has jurisdiction over some of these matters given the tolling
motions Coughlin filed in these various cases prevented the RJC from being divested of jurisdiction to undo
all this damages done by it and R. Bruce Lindsay, Esq.
Please provide a complete copy of all of Coughlin's case files.
Of course, all of Coughlin's assertions are fully supported by Lindsay's own written correspondence to
Coughlin:
"Re: Notice of Appearances filed in which cases?? From: Robert Lindsay (rbrucelindsaylaw@yahoo.com)
This sender is in your safe list. Sent: Wed 3/13/13 8:57 AM To: Zach Coughlin (zachcoughlin@hotmail.com)
Dear Zach: Thank you for the email. Please note that I am working on putting together three separate files
with case numbers and discovery . I will contact the court this morning and talk with them regarding the
upcoming court dates (especially tuesday) and then I will call you this morning."
"Re: proposal that might be your office some more money and resolve this whole thing.? From: Robert
Lindsay (rbrucelindsaylaw@yahoo.com) This sender is in your safe list. Sent: Tue 3/05/13 11:03 AM To:
Zach Coughlin (zachcoughlin@hotmail.com) Zack I did not receive the email with the five page
attachment. I will be faxing the letter I read to you before lunch so I was hoping to get that attachments. From:
Zach Coughlin <zachcoughlin@hotmail.com> To: Robert Lindsay <rbrucelindsaylaw@yahoo.com>;
"zyoung@da.washoecounty.us" <zyoung@da.washoecounty.us>; "mkandaras@da.washoecounty.us"
<mkandaras@da.washoecounty.us>; "dwatts@da.washoecounty.us" <dwatts@da.washoecounty.us>;
"mcovington@da.washoecounty.us" <mcovington@da.washoecounty.us>; "plippar@da.washoecounty.us"
<plippar@da.washoecounty.us>; "plipparelli@da.washoecounty.us" <plipparelli@da.washoecounty.us>;
"jhelzer@da.washoecounty.us" <jhelzer@da.washoecounty.us> Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2013 9:14 PM
Subject: proposal that might be your office some more money and resolve this whole thing. Dear Mr. Lindsay
and WCDA's Office, I respectfully submit this in the hopes that a global deal..."
"Re: proposal that might be your office some more money and resolve this whole thing.? From: Robert
Lindsay (rbrucelindsaylaw@yahoo.com) This sender is in your safe list. Sent: Thu 2/28/13 10:40 AM To:
Zach Coughlin (zachcoughlin@hotmail.com) Zach I don't even know where to begin. You have the right
idea here and then you just keep going on and on. Can you please contact our office so that we can make an
appointment to have you come in and go over all of the facts and documents. 324-3333 or 230-4697. The
sooner the better. From: Zach Coughlin <zachcoughlin@hotmail.com> To: Robert Lindsay
<rbrucelindsaylaw@yahoo.com>; "zyoung@da.washoecounty.us" <zyoung@da.washoecounty.us>;
"mkandaras@da.washoecounty.us" <mkandaras@da.washoecounty.us>; "dwatts@da.washoecounty.us"
<dwatts@da.washoecounty.us>; "mcovington@da.washoecounty.us" <mcovington@da.washoecounty.us>;
"plippar@da.washoecounty.us" <plippar@da.washoecounty.us>; "plipparelli@da.washoecounty.us"
<plipparelli@da.washoecounty.us>; "jhelzer@da.washoecounty.us" <jhelzer@da.washoecounty.us> Sent:
Wednesday, February 27, 2013 9:14 PM Subject: proposal that might be your office some more money and
resolve this whole thing. Dear Mr. Lindsay and WCDA's Office, I respectfully submit this in the hopes that a
global deal..."
"
Re: update on NNAHMS, request for continuance
of 2/25/13 Hearing in 067980
From: Robert Lindsay (rbrucelindsaylaw@yahoo.com) This sender is in
your safe list.
Sent: Mon 2/25/13 1:57 PM
To: Zach Coughlin (zachcoughlin@hotmail.com)
Zach: Please do not second guess me when I tell you I have things handled. There is no need for you to
cause more confusion. It does not help. You wanted the continuance I told you I would take care of it and I
did. You going into the court after the fact does not look good. Your next court date is for March 11,
2013 for the Order to show cause hearing and the Pretrial on the resisting arrest. In addition the other two
tpo violations are scheduled for March 6, 2013 at 9:00 a.m. I will be in touch with the Court to verify if the
DA actually filed charges. So relax and lets work together like we said we would.
From: Zach Coughlin <zachcoughlin@hotmail.com>
To: Robert Lindsay <rbrucelindsaylaw@yahoo.com>
Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2013 4:50 PM
Subject: RE: update on NNAHMS, request for continuance of 2/25/13 Hearing in
067980..."
"Re: update on NNAHMS, request for continuance of 2/25/13 Hearing in 067980?
From: Robert Lindsay (rbrucelindsaylaw@yahoo.com) This sender is in your
safe list. Sent: Sun 2/24/13 2:53 PM To: Zach Coughlin
(zachcoughlin@hotmail.com) Yes both of the cases have been continued. I will
call Robin in the morning and reset them for a couple weeks out. I explained to
Zach that you are doing everything possible to get on your feet and that you are
working with NAHMS as well as counseling etc. If you do everything required by
DAS over the next few weeks maybe when you go to court on the probation
violation it will work out so that the violation is dismissed or time served. Hang in
there your doing well, try to breathe and stay out of trouble ok!!! ...
From: Zach Coughlin <zachcoughlin@hotmail.com> To: Robert Lindsay
<rbrucelindsaylaw@yahoo.com> Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2013 10:10 PM
Subject: RE: update on NNAHMS, request for continuance of 2/25/13 Hearing in
067980 Hi Diana, I am not sure I ever had your phone number beyond the one for
your office listed at http://www.nvbar.org/. When you wrote, below, "Zach I got a
call from Zach and your hearing has been continued. Please call me" Does that
mean my hearing in 11-063341 on the DAS Probation Violation (arrest of 2/2/13
alleging that I failed to check in on 1/3/13/ and 1/23/13, $500 cash bail posted)
Show Cause to show why my probation on a 180 suspended sentence should not
be revoked has been continued AS WELL? That's the hearing I really wanted
continued because, as specifically mentioned by Judge Pearson at a 2/3/13
Show Cause hearing on the morning of 2/3/13 (I was bailed out at 1 am and
found out about the hearing when I called the RJC to inquired about the start time
of my continued trial in a different case in 12-065630...that DAS hearing in
063341 was incorrectly noticed on my Jail Release papers for 2/5/13 or
something...At that 2/3/13 Hearing I got an Order for Competency Evaluation from
Pearson, then went and provided that to Judge Clifton at the resumption of the
065630 trial immediately thereafter, which, under NRS 178.405, required Clifton
to suspend the trial in 065630. Of course, he did not. He has demonstrated a
willingness to fail to apply the law as written in certain instances, invariably to the
benefit of the State. Somehow, Judge Clifton then allowed DDA a recess to go to
the counter and request and Emergency Hearing before Judge Pearson to have
that Order for Competency Evaluation entered an hour before in 063341 vacated.
DDA Young was successful in getting a hearing and having that Order vacated.
Judge Pearson was evasive during that hearing when questioned as to whether
he had extra-judicial discussions with Clifton (whom had just exited the Bench in
Courtroom D long enough for Judge Pearson to hold the Emergency Hearing to
Vacate his just entered Order for Competency Evaluation, which he claimed to
have been reviewing, unprompted, following his entry of that Order, in his
chambers, unprompted...)...."
"Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 16:37:16 -0800From:
rbrucelindsaylaw@yahoo.comSubject: Re: update on NNAHMS, request for
continuance of 2/25/13 Hearing in 067980To: zachcoughlin@hotmail.com Zach I
got a call from Zach and your hearing has been continued. Please call me From:
Zach Coughlin <zachcoughlin@hotmail.com> To: "rbrucelindsaylaw@yahoo.com"
<rbrucelindsaylaw@yahoo.com>; "rbl@robertbrucelindsay.com"
<rbl@robertbrucelindsay.com>; "zyoung@da.washoecounty.us"
<zyoung@da.washoecounty.us> Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2013 4:08 PM
Subject: update on NNAHMS, request for continuance of 2/25/13 Hearing in
067980 Dear Mr. Lindsay and DDA Young, I am writing to request from DDA
Young a stipulation to a continuance of the 2/25/3 Show Cause Hearing in
063341, which I understand may have been combined with 067980, so I am
copying Mr. Lindsay...."
"Re: sorry for the delay
From: Robert Lindsay (rbrucelindsaylaw@yahoo.com)
Sent: Wed 2/20/13 12:06 PM
To: Zach Coughlin (zachcoughlin@hotmail.com); rbl@robertbrucelindsay.com
(rbl@robertbrucelindsay.com)...
From: Zach Coughlin <zachcoughlin@hotmail.com>
To: "rbrucelindsaylaw@yahoo.com" <rbrucelindsaylaw@yahoo.com>;
"rbl@robertbrucelindsay.com" <rbl@robertbrucelindsay.com>
Sent: Friday, February 8, 2013 2:21 AM
Subject: FW: sorry for the delay
I need to see something out of your office soon. So far I got Bruce failing to file a
Motion for Order for Competency Evaluation and stipping to everything to make
DDA Young's routine easier...and generally seeming out of it, and he has
provided absolutely zero legal advice so far...zip...nothing. Please respond to my
written requests below. I need to know what your office is willing to do
immediately, otherwise its time to refund the $700.00Zachary Barker Coughlin
1471 E. 9th St. Reno, NV 89512 Tel and Fax: 949 667 7402
ZachCoughlin@hotmail.com
From: zachcoughlin@hotmail.comTo: rbl@robertbrucelindsay.comSubject: sorry
for the delayDate: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 14:45:21 -0800
Dear Mr. Lindsay,
https://skydrive.live.com/redir?resid=43084638F32F5F28%21118
Please find very relevant materials to the defense of this case attached and at the
above link. I have scanned everything therein for viruses and it is 100% safe and
virus free.
Sorry for the delay, I am not flaking on you, its just been hectic, i'll get to getting it
scanned and returned, very busy addressing a recent Order of the NNDB seeking
to disbar me, but I will get to it.
I don't want much, okay. Just a few simple things.If you get me this stuff, as far as
I am concerned, we are straight (assuming you don't pull a Jim Leslie and insist
on remaing on my case as long as possible to purposefully torpedo it....) There
was talk of Cape Fear with Leslie well before he moved to withdraw and got a
TPO, and now an EPO (though courthouse sanctuary doctrine makes the
"service" thereof rather suspect. Leslie was not all "terrified" back then...What
changed? Oh, that's right, he was finished puttin' in work for the County (ie,
makign sure I got convicted on both counts in 063341, thanks to his making the
NRS 171.136 (or trying to, at least, ...he failed) citizen's arrest arguments that
went completely over DDA Young head (or, more likely DDA Young just couldn't
stomach anymore of the farce and chose not to make such arguments to the
tirbunal). Can you serve the WCDA with request for discovery and subpoena the
RJC and WCSO for the following (assuming the won't just copy the stuff an
provide it all nice'n'easy like):
certified audio transcripts of the following hearings in the RJC:
1. 7/5/12 in RJC Rev2012-001048 hearing granting a default victory incident to a
6/28/12 motion to set aside the fraudulently procurred 6/27/12 Lockotu Order at
the rental where the 067980 arrest occurred.
2. 7/31/12 hearing in rjc rev2012-001048 before Judge Pearson (this was a
hearing noticed on 7/23/12 to address my Motion to Set Aside the 6/27/12
eviction Order signed by Judge Schroeder despite my 6/26/12 email and fax to
the RJC, SJC, WCSO, and City of Reno regarding my filign the Tenant's Answer
in the SJC, and the deficiencies in the 5 day notice. (please see the attached
police report by the RPD incident to the pretextual (and Soldal v. Cook Co
violating, not that it matters, this is nevada after all) arrest shortly upon my bailing
out on the 067980 charge in RMC 12 CR 12420(wherein the "approach" by the
RPD (to which RPD Sargent Sifre incidates some level of complicity between the
RPD and RJC in a recording only recently propound by the WCDA just 2 judicial
days before the 12/11/12 Trial stemming from the 1/14/12 misuse of 911 arrest in
rcr2012-065630 (a witness just sadly passed away unexpectedly 2 days after the
DA complete his direct examination of her, EComm's Kariann Beechler).
2.1 the audio transcript of the one hearing in REV 2012-075658 Zach Coughlin
vs Jeff Nichols. This is relevant to 067980 because its another eviction scenario
and establishes a pattern and practice by the RPD, WCSO and RJC to refuse to
uphold my rights while aggressively applying an overly rigid and formulaic
application of rules to me as a pro se tenant, and even going beyond that, some
might say, at times. Please, this one is important, I need it. A former WCSO
Deputy pu
3. I would like you to serve on the WCDA a request for discovery and also a
subpoena/FOIA (I know, NRS Open Records REquest) on ECOMM for any 911
calls, RPD Dispatch calls from civilians, or recordings between the RPD or wcso
or Reno sparks Indian colony Police or dispatch/ECOMM in any way connected
to me, Zach Coughlin, or suspected to be connected to me. I am not going to ask
for much more, if you get me all that, I'll be good, if not...I'll be tedious.
4. any and all recordings made by anyone (RPD, WCSO, Northwinds Staff,
bystanders, and especially Jeff Chandler or Ryan WRay or anyone else
associate with Nevada Court Services) of ANY interactions with me in any way
connected to Northwinds Apartments and my tenancies there (i had three rentals,
units 29, 45, and 71). Please have served a subpoena duces tecum on Nevada
Court Services directed to anythign (documentation, recordings, etc) related to
Zach Coughlin and serve a witness subpoena on NCS's Ryan Wray (might have
stopped working there, but still subpoena him please) as well as Jeff Chandler.
5. The RMC audio transcript of the (it woudl cost my $35 i don't have, and they
probably have to waive the fee for you, the RJC does when Leslie and the WCPD
request recordings) 7/5/12 unnoticed bail hearing in RMC 12 CR 12420 wherein
my bail was impermissibly raise from a bondable $1,415 to a cash only $3,000 for
charges that were plainly manufacture anyways.
6. the 12/3/12 Trial audio transcript in RMC 12 CR 12420.
7. the 12/18/12 audio transcript of the hearing in 067980 (the case you are on)
wherein Jim Leslie (without DDA Young there) was able to get some things
done...you likely are required to, or at least, might want to, have this anyways.... I
dont' necessarily need the hard copies (you can sign up for a free hotmail
account at www.outlook.com and skydrive them to me, its totally easy, or I can
pick them up, copy them, and deliver them to you...i just dont' have the money
and the court's nickel and dime me like crazy).
8. The 12/6/12 filing in the appeal of an associated RJC prosecution in rcr2012-
063341 (it is the Record on Appeal, basically, but I think they titled it "Notice of
Appeal" on the docket...and the RJC has failed to provide me a copy of it...not
even the brand new filings listing the index of documents included in that 12/6/12
filing (which is basically a Notice of Appeal). YES, IT is relevant to this case...it
goes to conflicts analysis to both the RJC (even across departments, especially
given some admission by Clifton as to looking over "submission on subpoenas"
from that 063341 case before Sferrazza, on the record in 065630...DDA Young is
an efiler and could easily email you that 20 mb or so 12/6/12 Notice of Appeal
(804 page) filign in CR12-2025 (the appeal of rcr2011-063341, the first of 10
arrest/incarcerations of me since 8/20/11).
Please subpoena Nevada Court Services Ryan Wray (he may not work there
anymore, but he was present at the scene of the arrest and, obviously, along with
Northwinds Manager Duane Jakobs (who testified on that 7/31/12 audio
transcript I am requesting you obtain and copy me on in rev2012-001048 about
the events in question in 067980) participated in attempted break in an fraudulent
Declaration of Service of the 6/14/12 5 Day UD Notice.
9. Lastly, please serve the RJC Custodian of Records a Subpoena duces tecum
for all records/fax logs/information/documentation related to any faxing of Orders
by RJC Judges to the WCSO between October 24th, 2011 and November 2nd
2011 (each fax has a job number, etc. I want a sequential printout or log of those
faxes as it goes to whether the RJC, in accord with its admitted policy, faxed to
the WCSO the two different ORders by Judge SFerrazza related to the Eviction (a
10/25/11 "Eviction ORder and Decision" and a 10/27/11 "Findings of Fact,
Conclusions of Law, and ORder for Summary Eviction". I need to know if and
when such items were faxed or transmitted to the WCSO...it is very relevant given
the same WCSO Deputy Machen conducted the lockout on 11/1/11 from my
former home law office, according to the locksmith, REno Carson Messenger
receipts, the transcript of th 6/18/12 criminal trespass trial in RMC 11 Cr 26405
(sworn testimony of Casey Baker, eSq. and Richard G. HIll, eSq.) demonstrates
that the WCSO's Office is being obstructive, as is the RJC (whom failed to comply
with my SCR 105(4)/SCR 119 properly issued and served supboena and
subpoena decus tecums of 10/30/12 in the formal disciplinary matter (espeically
consiering the 4/11/12 volunteering of information and documents by RJC judges
secretary Lori Townsend), and further specify the subpoena duces tecum is for
the "file stamped cover page" of any filign by Couglin in RJC rev2012-000374.
10. the audio transcript of the 8/7/12 TPO Hearing in RJC RCP2012-000287)
for Milan Krebs v. Zach Coughlin (Krebs was NOrthwinds Apts maintenance man
(the one doing the sawzalling to the metal door of unit 29 incident to the arrest in
067980...He testified under oath the matters of material direct relevane to the
defense of this case. This is a no brainer, and the fact that Leslie continuously
refused to obtain a copy of this hearing (again, the RJC waives the $35 fee for th
wCPD...so what was Leslie's excuse? That Northwind's Apartments sent him
some photgraphs of a microwave? Please. Jim Leslie is a joke. That might be
relevant to an evictio hearing, but not to a NRS 199.280 defense. What Krebs
testified to at that TPO extension hearing on cross examination is obviously
extremely relevant, particularly where there was extensive questioning directed to
the circumstances of the arrest in 067980.
11. Lastly, a subpoena duces tecum on the Custodian of Records for the Reno
muni Court and the Custodian of Records for the City of REno Marshals for any
an all documentation, marshal's reports, or recordings (Thompsons admitted to
makign at least on on or about 3/22/12) in any way related to Coguhlin (obviously,
there shoudl be an arrest report from the 2/27/12 direct contempt arrest wherein
Marshal Harley, as testified to by Judge Nash Holmes at my disciplinary hearing
on 11/14/12 via her hearsay of what Harley told her, has apparently alleged some
"disassemblign of a recording device and hiding a component of it in the restroom
during arestroom break that was begrudingly granted immediately after Holmes
began interrogating Coughlin about hwether he was "recording the proceedings"
and or whether he "had a recording device", upon which, alleged Holmes,
Coughlin immediately got "all squirmy and begged to use the restroom"....Okay,
lets see the documentation, marshal's report etc. for anything, but especially
including that. IF they move to QUash I want be copied on it (please copy me on
anything anyone sends you ever in any way related to me) as I have some
authority and opposition work I woudl like for you to at least consider incident to
any reply you may wish to file....this is relevant. RJC Clifton signed an ORder for
Competency eval on 2/27/12 at 1:31 pm...JUDge Nash holmes could nto be found
by her staff at that time, despite the traffic citaiton trial connected to Richard G.
Hill, Esq.'s office and the trespass arrest being schedule to occur then...both
HOlmes and Clifton were mysteriously transferred criminal cases involving
Coughlin on 2/27/12...both are lifelong prosecutors, formerly Holmes was Clifton's
boss from about 91 to 94 ish (not to mention Linda Gardner was a coworker (see
54844 and 60302), and Nash Holmes 3/14/12 grievance against Coughli nto the
SBN admits to communications with the WCPD about Coughlin.
12. please subpoena duces tecum the WCPD as to anything in any way related
to HOlmes admission regarding the WCPD in her 3/14/12 grievance...
13. Lastly, please serve a subpoena duces tecum on the custodian of REcords
for Richard G. HIll, ESq. and his former associates new firm in Kentucky, Casey
D. Baker, Esq's Baker and Baker or whatever tey call themsleves narrowly
tailored to any documentation, recordings, or information baring on when and if
their office provided the two different eviction ORders to the wcso office (Baker's
testimony at the 6/18/12 crimnal trespass trial (there is an oficial transcript at te
link) sheds some light on this vis a vis October 28th, 2011...and familiarzie
yourslef with the void/stale order concept incident to NRS 40.253's requirement
that the lockout be done "within 24 hours" of "receipt of the order"....by the
WCSO...the same deputy makign the arrest in 067980 conducted that lockout
and filed a fraudulent affidavit of service on 11/7/11 alleging to have "personally
served" me...which his supervisor was ofrced to admit, in writing, he did not, but
rather merely posted the order on the door (hill lied at the 6/18/12 trespass trial in
testying "they posted it to the door because you ran away" despite that being
completely false, and where HIll admits he was not even present that day, and his
associate completely failes to back up hill's baseless, defamatory accusation (one
of many by Hill).
And that's it. You do all that and provide a reasonable return and attempt to
counter all the bs MOtions to Quash sure to ensue, and we are straight. You can
move to withdraw and I will give you glowing review, I promise. Hell, I will even
draft all these subpoenas for your approval and the oppositions to the motions to
quash if you like, and provide the authority in support of them. But I need you to
issue the subpoenas and have them served, and get the recordings, etc....even if
they make you pay for them, none of this adds up to more than $200 (perhaps
you can file a notice of appearance, if an efiler on the cr12-2025 under some
justification that is is necessary to the defense herein or I would allow you to
appear as co-counsel provided you dont' insist on hijacking things..., but
obviously paying $1 page for all 804 pages hard copy from aint goign to work....
I really appreciate any help you can provide.
Sifre's admissions as to said complicity may provide a basis for your filing a
Motion to conflict out the rjc and the wcda's office (in addition to DDA Kandaras'
involvement in the turning over of my smartphone and data card to the City of
Reno Marshals and the RMC in 11 TR 26800, as admitted to by WCSO Hodge to
me, in front of local attorney Pam Willmore (I was arrested incidnet to a contempt
finding at the 2/27/12 trial before judge Nash Holmes, and it was not until after my
property was booked into my personal secured property and well after any time
for a "search incident to arrest" that the WC Jail released to the RMC and its
Marshals on 2/28/12 my property, which was returned 37 days later wiped of all
data incident to an Order of 3/30/12 that seems to have clearly be responsive to a
filing by me in NVB 10-05104 before Judge Nash Holmes and Washoe Legal
Services Exec. Director Elcano 1977 McGeorge SOL classmate, NVB Judge B.
Beesley....all three of whom testified at my 11/14/12 formal disciplinary hearing at
the SBN, despite SCR 105(2)(c) being desecrated in every way imaginable,
another Mirching to besmirch the judicial system in Nevada. DDA Kandaras is on
the NNDB and refuses to deny that she or David Hamilton, Esq. (Richard G. Hill,
Esq.'s best friend) were on my screening Panel. This IS revelvant to what you
are getting seven bones for, under a conflict or disqualification analysis (I would
like a reason why this case was transferred on 2/27/12 from Judge Lynch, same
day another case in the RMC was transferred to jUdge Holmes (the 1/12/12
custodial arrest for jaywalkign cuz richard g. hill said to cas in rmc 12 CR 12420.
7/5/12 in RJC Rev2012-001048 (this is the summary eviction from the very unit
#29 rental at Northwinds Apartment, 1680 Sky Mountain Drive that I was arrested
at on 6/28/12 in the matter you were assigned and contracted to handle for
$700.00). I did not attend the hearing because I was rearrested on 7/3/12 by the
Reno Police Department just blocks from Northwinds Apartments in RMC 12 CR
12420 (a custodial arrest involving three charges, one, a simple traffic citation for
failure to secure a load on one's vehicle (they allege an empty plastic storage tub
fell off my vehicle), two, no proof of vehicle insurance (despite RPD Officer Alan
Weaver admitting that I showed him a high resolution pdf of my then current
USAA auto insurance on a 4.7 inch smart phone screen...he said it had to be a
paper printout), and three, "disturbing the peace" based upon the criminal
complaint signed by Northwind's Apartments maintenance man, 23 year old Milan
Krebs (whom obtained a TPO against me from the RJC in RCP2012-000287 on
7/5/12 after the RPD fraudulently urged Krebs to apply for one incident to the
7/3/12 arrest, as further confirmed by the commentary by the same RPD Sargent
Sifre (only finally propounded to me following a 12/5/12 email from the WCDA
informing me of the availability of such discovery
please let me know, in writing, and with specifics, whether or not you will move, in
writing, to obtain the above indicated materials, and provide an indication of how
soon you will do so, with proof thereof. Sorry to have to ask for that, but time is of
the essence and I need to know if this is going to work out with you or not. If it
does, I will absolutely credit you for being a faithful defender of the Sixth
Amendment, and maybe more.
Sincerely,
Zach Coughlin1471 E. 9th St.Reno, NV 89512Tel and Fax: 949 667
7402ZachCoughlin@hotmail.com"
Sincerely,
Zachary Barker Coughlin 1471 E. 9th St. Reno, NV 89512 Tel and Fax: 949 667
7402 ZachCoughlin@hotmail.com
PS:
"
Re: Notice of Appearances filed in which cases?
From: Robert Lindsay (rbrucelindsaylaw@yahoo.com) This sender is in
your safe list.
Sent: Wed 3/13/13 8:57 AM
To: Zach Coughlin (zachcoughlin@hotmail.com)
Dear Zach: Thank you for the email. Please note that I am working on putting together three separate files
with case numbers and discovery .

I will contact the court this morning and talk with them regarding the upcoming court dates (especially
tuesday) and then I will call you this morning...."
"
Re: Notice of Appearances filed in which cases?
From: Robert Lindsay (rbrucelindsaylaw@yahoo.com) This sender is in
your safe list.
Sent: Wed 3/13/13 8:57 AM
To: Zach Coughlin (zachcoughlin@hotmail.com)
Dear Zach: Thank you for the email. Please note that I am working on putting together three separate files
with case numbers and discovery .

I will contact the court this morning and talk with them regarding the upcoming court dates (especially
tuesday) and then I will call you this morning.
From: Zach Coughlin <zachcoughlin@hotmail.com>
To: Robert Lindsay <rbrucelindsaylaw@yahoo.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2013 4:29 PM
Subject: Notice of Appearances filed in which cases
Dear Mr Lindsay,
Would you please communicate with me a bit more with regard to what the
overall plan is, the contigencies, worst case, best case, etc. For instance, what
if no global resolution is worked out by 3/19/13, the trial date for 12-065630
before Judge Clifton...."
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 09:33:53 -0700
From: rbrucelindsaylaw@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: Notice of Appearances filed in which cases?
To: zachcoughlin@hotmail.com
Dear Mr. Coughlin:

I need to clarify with you that Mr. Lindsay was appointed to the following cases in Court to wit;

RCR2013-71437 the contempt charges that you were reinstated into DAS and CCP

RCR2011-063341 petty larceny matter that you were already convicted on but again for the contempt of
court matters.

RCR 12-067980 obstructing justice and resisting case that has been set for a pretrial on April 16, 2013.

Apparently the case that is going to trial on Tuesday 03-19-13, is Case No. RCR2012-065630 and as you
indicated the Judge specifically stated that no additional counsel would be appointed on this case, as you
had one appointed and they withdrew, you then requested to represent yourself. I believe this accurate.

Mr. Lindsay would like to schedule an appointment with you for Friday March 15, 2013 to go over these
matters. However, you need to make sure to take your medication and be in a rational state of mind when
you meet with him.

Also, Mr. Lindsay informed you that you were to provide a list of the medications that you are currently
taking as well as the name of the psychologist that will be performing the evaluation with and that you are
suppose to meeting with regularly.

Furthermore Zach: Please do not send me a large email I simply need you to pleas just follow the
instructions as outlined above and make an appointment with our office. I apologize for any confusion, but
as I specifically informed you a couple of days ago I needed to review our files and consult with Mr.
Lindsay before offering any information and have now done so.

Thank you in advance for your anticipated cooperation.

Diana Sims
Legal Assistant to
ROBERT BRUCE LINDSAY
From: Zach Coughlin <zachcoughlin@hotmail.com>
To: Robert Lindsay <rbrucelindsaylaw@yahoo.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2013 4:29 PM
Subject: Notice of Appearances filed in which cases?
Dear Mr. Lindsay,
Would you please communicate with me a bit more with regard to what the
overall plan is, the contigencies, worst case, best case, etc. For instance,
what if no global resolution is worked out by 3/19/13, the trial date for 12-
065630 before Judge Clifton.
I like you personally, Bruce, and Diana too, but I am frustrated. Everytime I
go into court I don't know if I will be allowed to go home that day. I have
offered the County, the WCDA, etc., etc. everything I could think they want,
but no deals get done...the WCDA is shielding DDA Young from any emails,
faxes, voice mails from me (See the letter ADA Helzer recently resent), which
I think impermissibly attempts to absolve him of his obligations under the
RPC. I am very unhappy about what happened on 2/13/13 (not a huge deal,
but I am working on a brief to save my law license, and five days in jail
doesn't help). Its not clear to me what happened yesterday before Judge
Pearson. I can chill out, but how about seeking clarification as to what
occurred, and if, in fact, I am now subject to some 3 year probation requiring
me to check in with CCP, in addition, to checking in with DAS, every
week...how is that a good deal for me? Keep me out of jail? From what?
What was I in danger of going to jail over? An allegation of calling the
wrong number at the RJC to check the time for a hearing? Hardly colorable
for the RJC to assert a justification for 6 months in jail? What else? A DAS
probation violation? Well, did I have an email from DAS Officer Brown
excusing such violation? Was the arrest after 7pm in violation of NRS
171.136? I dont' like going to court, checking in with probation, giving
people my medical records. These are positives. Having limites on my ability
to travel, to move...Giving the RJC leverage to put me back in jail should I
point out how their various egregiously incorrect under the law eviction order
contributed mightily to a tremendously painful and unhappy 18 months of my
life. And you, so far, have always assumed I was wrong, and that they only
way is to give up any leverage I have, for....what? 5 days in jail for being late
to court (no consultation with you prior to appearing before Judge Clifton is
hardly "representation"...If some binding order issued yesterday from Judge
Pearson, its not as though I received any analysis from you before hand. That
is why I didn't agree to anything beyond a two week continuance, which I was
you confirmed in my initial phone call to you afterwards, then, later, you
changed your position and asserted something else...I think we need to work
together here, and that, if you really think about it, neither you nor I "agreed"
to any such consent Order that Judge Pearson for the WCDA may alleged
occurred. Further, any such Order was issued in AO12-01...which is not even
a "case", nor was it issued upon "a properly made motion"....as such, and CCP
Order is void...somehow I think we could influence Judge Pearson to adopt
that viewpoint to whatever extent he does not yet...But I am not even sure he
entered an order, or "rendered", etc...I need something in writing telling me
what, if anything, I am required to do to comply with any such "Order" should
it be the case that there is one. If there is, I want to file a motion to stay
probation, correct illegal sentence, notice of appeal thereto, etc., and the time
frame is extremely limited. Maybe Judge Pearson would rather "clarify"
things than have a Notice of Appeal filed divesting him of the ability to do so.
It seems you feel that going in to CCP would be a good thing, that it likely
wouldn't be three years in duration, would provide me an opportunity to sell
myself to Judge Pearson more, etc...But that's assumign stupid things don't
happen, like me being late to a check-in, continued issues with a Bailiff or
two, ADA Helzer telling DAS Officer Ramos to arrest me when he needs
leverage on something (if that is what happened), etc., etc. It just doesn't
seem that thought out to go, in two weeks, and enter some CCP Consent
Order to dispose of two rather dubious Show Cause Orders or Probation
Violations...Were were the witnesses yesterday? No witnesses, no
contempt...so that adds credence to the view that yesterday was more of a
status conference in which no orders issued, an certainly not a CCP obligation
for 3 years where the only discernible benefit to the client is getting an Order
paying for a Dr. Yasar evaluation when such an Order was already rendered
on 2/2/13 (Pearson has just failed to have a check cut...). I dont' need my
meds paid for by CCP, NNAHMS is doing that, and my future psychiatrist
visits are paid for too. So any consenting to an Order that anyone alleges you
did yesterday on behalf of your client would not be supportable much under a
theory that your client obtained much benefit from it...beyond a dubious
assertion that jail time was likely. At some point the RJC Judges have to
consider the PR on the horizon attendant to any jailing me for 6 months
incident to a RJC Bailiff detaining me just long enough for DAS to close its
doors on 1/23/13, upon which some suspect revocation of probation would
be based...
Will you please email me or fax me something in writing indicating, by case
number, which cases you are attorney of record for me on, and to what
extent? I have been told by your office and the RJC, and the WCDA's Office
that you are my attorney of record in 12-065630, for which the Trial is set to
occur on 3/19/13 at 8:30 am. If that is the case, I would like to meet with
you and prepare for trial, and your being listed as attorney of record therein
has now limited my ability to have subpoenas issued, to make filings, etc.
My understanding of the hearing yesterday before Judge Pearson is that it was
a combination hearing involving three separate and distinct matters:
12-067980, the case in which you are listed as attorney of record by the RJC,
though the Motion I filed on 12/3/12 therein has never been addressed by the
RJC
AO12-01, the "case" wherein the "Caption" reads "In the Administrative
Matter of Zachary Coughlin...Administrative Order 12-01" from which the
12/20/12 "Administrative Order 12-01" by then Chief Judge Sferrazza issued,
though service thereof I believe should be quashed, as, should be, the 2/25/13
Order to Show Cause that shares the same "caption", and
11-063341, the iPhone petty larceny conviction case currently on appeal in
CR12-2025 (where I was granted In Forma Pauperis status on 1/9/13 and
have an Order (see attached) requiring the preparation of some 15 hours of
trial transcripts).
I believe the AO12-01 of 2/25/13 is void for lack of jurisidiction and for the
other reasons set out in my various attached filings. Please note t
Please indicate whether you were compensated by anyone in any way for your
appearing in 12-065630 on 2/13/13 and how you came to appear at such
hearing, whether such hearing involved criminal or civil contempt, and
whether you are attorney of record on the appeal thereof (please see the
Notice of Appeal I filed in that matter on 2/25/13, within the 10 days under
NRS 189.010, as to the 5 day summary incarceration Order for some type of
contempt...I gather. Given you were late to court yesterday, I noted that you
were not taken into custody following the hearing and yourself subject to
such a Contempt Hearing). Please indicate when, and in exactly what matters,
and to what extent, you have complied with the local rules with respect to
filing a notice of appearance in any of my cases. I am sorry to come across as
so formal and technical, but there are significant consequences to me possible
in these various matters.
Given the proximity of the 3/19/13 Trial date in 12-065630 and your
statement to me on the phone today, that you could not speak with me about
any of the matters for which you are listed as my attorney of record, including
the case wherein there is a trial date on calendar of 3/19/13 at 8:30 am, I
believe it is necessary for a stipulation to a continuance be sought from DDA
Young and and Order granting such continuance from the RJC.
Additionally, I have my medication and pyschiatrist viists paid for by
NNAMHS. I have no interest in joining a CCP with the RJC, much less for 3
years. You indicated to me that nothing occurred in court at the combination
hearing yesterday (which,. from my understanding combined the Show Cause
Order of 2/25/13 incident to the 12/20/12 Administrative Order 12-
01...which I have called "case number AO12-01...and I object to such Order
be recharacterized at this point as being incident to 11-063341 (There was a
Show Cause Hearing, continued from 2/25/13 in 11-063341 that was to take
place yesterday 3/11/13, though it did not take place as far as I know, and any
Order that was entered (I did not agree to any Order being entered, and you
represented to me that no Orders were going to be entered in any matter or
case being addressed in court yesterday 3/11/13 incident to the 9 am
combination hearing of that date beyond a 2 week continuance being entered,
sufficient to allow you and I and DDA Young to work together towards a
global resolution, involving both the matters in which you are attorney of
record, and to which I have so consented to you being attorney of record, and
those where you and I are co-counsel, and those where I am self representing,
whichever the case may be (and at this point, that seems to be up for debate
and in the eye of the beholder).
Please indicate whether you will be seeking a continuance as to the 3/19/12
Trial date at 8:30 am in 12-065630 before Judge Clifton, and, if not, when
you and I can meet to address matters related thereto.
NNAHMS is paying for my medication and future psychiatrist visits, and I am
starting counseling there with a psychologist. As such, I don't know why it
would be necessary to provide my prescription records. I would like the RJC
to fulfill the Order rendered on 2/2/13 that it would pay for a mental health
evaluation with my private psychiatrist (Dr. Suat Yasar) whom I have gone to
for years, and who, thus, I feel would be able to provide a more in depth and
better mental health evaluation.
To the extent that during the hearing yesterday (I was only able to speak with
you very, very briefly yesterday prior to the 9:00 am hearing, given your
arriving at 9:20 am for yesterday's hearing, which was set for 9:00 am). I
would like to consult with you further regarding the possibilities of entering
the RJC's CCP program, though at this point, I don't see how doing such
provides much benefit to me beyond being subject to more Orders To Show
Cause should I fail to appear to a check in or arrive late. I have no interest in
being subject to such a program for 36 months. I do not believe I consented
to any Order being entered which would place me in such a CCP program for
36 months or require me to check in at the RJC a second time per week in
addition to my usual Wednesday DAS check ins. You mentioned some
possibile benefit of being enrolled in the CCP program or, in the future, after
more consulation and informed consent being garned from me, upon any such
Consent Order being entered requiring me to participate in the CCP program,
as involving having my medications and psychiatrist visits paid for. However,
NNAHMS is currently providing such a service, and NNAHMS does not
subject me to Order to Show Cause if I am late to an appointment, and given
my ADHD/ADD and Major Depressive Disorder diagnosis, being late from
time to time is a distinct possibility.
If your understanding of what occurred in court yesteday before Judge
Pearson is different than mine, please let me know in writing. I know I was
crying in court and very distraught and indicated to you that I had not had my
medication in two days, and I feel that likely augured towards your moving
for a Competency Evaluation or otherwise seeking a stay of the
proceedings...further, you were provided the 2/2/13 Order for Competency
Evaluation by Judge Pearson, and even where Judge Pearson may have
purported to set aside such Order only an hour after entering it, I don't believe
he has the jurisdiction to do that, but rather, that I must be examined by a a
mental health care professional with the requisite certifcation to perform such
evaluations prior to any matter, in any department of the RJC proceeding.

While I granted you a limited right to pursue a global resolution in a civil
context of the various matters involved here, in a co-counsel arrangement in
which I retain final say on everything, including your continue participation in
any such matters (and, in the proper order, and prior to giving up any leverage
I may have, I am in favor of you being compensated by the State as much and
in as many cases as possible, just not before a deal is worked out in a civil
context disposing of these various matters and where, any subsequent filing
by you of a notice of appearance in a criminal matter is as my co-counsel).
Sincerely,
Zach Coughlin
Zachary Barker Coughlin 1471 E. 9th St. Reno, NV 89512 Tel and Fax: 949 667
7402 ZachCoughlin@hotmail.com
Zach has 11 files to share with you on SkyDrive. To view them, click the links below.
2 25 12 0204 Order to Show Cause Order 2012-01 RJC Sferrazza Pearson.pdf
2 25 13 Notice of Appeal of Order of 2 13 12 5 Day Incarceration for Contempt 065630 0204.pdf
2 25 13 Request to RJC Chief Judge Pearson for Order for Yasar Evaluation.pdf
2 28 13 0204 063341 WCDA DDA Hezler 2 25 13 letter with new handwritten note remailed threatening
TRO TPO.pdf
2 28 13 0204 AO12-01 Motion for Extension of Time to File Responsive Document to 2 25 13 Order in
AO12-01 for 3 5 13 Hearing by 4pm on 2 28 13.pdf
2 28 13 0204 RJC AO12-01 Motion for Extension of Time to Filed Responsive Document to 2 25 13 Order
in AO12-01 re Right to Counsel.pdf
3 1 13 0204 063341 Coughlin's Motion to for Check for Dr. Yaser Pursuant to Order Rendered on 2 13
13 , Subm of Proposed Order for Mental Eval.pdf
3 1 13 0204 AO12-01 Coughlin's Motion to Dismiss Show Cause Order Lack Specificity Insuff Service, Mtn
for Continuance of 3 5 13 Hearing, Set Aside AO12-01 Void Lack Juris 067980 063341 065630.pdf
3 11 13 0204 063341 067980 AO12-01 filign in relation to what occurred before Judge Pearson
today.pdf
12 3 12 067980 Motion to Substitute Out Leslie and Conflict out wcda wcpd motion for mistrial notice of
leslie and young's failure to hold msc on 11 20 12.pdf
12 20 12 438pm RJC Chief Judge Sferrazza 12-01 Administrative Order 0204 063341 065630 067980
1048 607 599 074328 ocrd tagged.pdf
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