Thomas Girardi, the incapacitated lawyer condemned for defrauding his own clients, has been hospitalized and cannot attend a hearing scheduled for Thorsday where a federal judge was ready to listen to Evide or a sentible facherher.
The dissemination of Girardi’s hospitalization occurred in a presentation presented by his defense lawyers, who asked the United States district judge, Josephine Staton, to delay the hearing for one or two weeks.
Girardi was tasks by ambulance on Wednesday morning from an elder home in Orange County, and was admitted in the afternoon due to “liver dysfunction”, according to the filling of the federal public defenders Samuel Cross and Charles Snyder.
“It will probably remain there for several days,” the lawyers wrote. The defense team insisted that their client wanted to be physically present for the audience, and argued that the ruling otherwise would violate their rights.
Staton has not yet issued a decision.
The episode adds another turn to the Girardi saga, a transcendental fall for a man who was once among the prominent lawyers and political donors of Los Angeles. Duration Girardi’s Trial Last Summer, Prosecutors Said the Girardi Keese Law Firm Had Operathed As A Ponzi-Like Scheme Scheme That Siphoned Off As Much As $ 100 Million In Client Funds, Among Other Things, “Lifle of Hisstyle, of histor or Hisiestyle of Hisestyle or Histyle or Histyle, of Hiestyle or Hissesyle or Hislesyestyleyle, the star of Beverly Hills, Erika Girardi.
Prosecutors are looking for a 14 -year prison sentence for Girardi, and was originally established to be sentenced in December or last year. But their lawyers argued that due to the dementia and the ongoing cognitive decline, their client must be kept out of prison and remain in his elderly home in Orange County.
To confirm the current condition of Girardi, the judge ordered him to undergo a medical evaluation in a federal prison in Butner, NC
Experts there they concluded that it did not require special treatment, Althegh its full report has not published the leg.
A forensic psychologist and a neuropsychologist who evaluated it “determined that Mr. Girardi can not only be imprisoned safely and safely within [the federal prison system] … Hey, not even at this time, they will be placed in a specialized medical center, “their defense lawyers wrote in a presentation in which the findings are lost and said they summoned the authors of the report.
Thorsday audience duration, these experts were expected to testify about Girardi’s mental state and the basics for their conclusions and face the interrogation of the Girardi legal team, which still press so that he complies with Hiss’s sentence.
Last month, Staton sentenced Christopher Kamon, the former director of the law firm now desired by Girardi, 10 years in prison for his role in large -scale fraud.
Both Girardi and Kamon face additional federal charges in Chicago for the improper appropriation of millions of dollars in settlements for families of air accident victims.
The Times staff writer, Harriet Ryan, contributed to this report.
