The LSAT is a bore, law school is expensive, and passing the bar risks getting caught up in biometric troubles. Wouldn’t it be easier to skip all of that and just say you’re a lawyer? Well, yes — but you’re gonna need an actual one once you get caught red handed. Someone should have given Nicole Jackson a heads-up. From Lancaster Online:
Nicole Jackson was a no-show at an extremely brief preliminary hearing Monday that saw Lancaster city District Judge Andrew LeFever order her criminal charges held for court. He also issued a bench warrant for her.
Jackson, 47, of Waxhaw, which is about 20 miles south of Charlotte, is charged with eight counts of unauthorized practice of law, misdemeanor.
For what it’s worth, telling Jackson that she would eventually get in trouble for practicing without a license probably wouldn’t have gone well either. People who subscribe to sovereign citizenry usually don’t give much weight to the “laws of man”:
The filings submitted by [Jackson], timestamped with the Lancaster County Clerk of Courts, bear language commonly used by sovereign citizens.
Sovereign citizen adherents believe in the legally baseless assertion that individuals, and not courts or lawmakers, can decide what laws to follow.
For example, the “affidavit of truth” filing states, “Be it known to all who call themselves “government”, their courts, agents, and other parties, that Antonio: Farrell, is a natural, freeborn, sovereign flesh and blood living man without subjects. Antonio: Farrell is neither subject to any entity anywhere, nor is any entity subject to Antonio: Farrell. neither dominate anyone nor is Antonio: Farrell dominated.
In January, Jackson filed a notice of intent to file a federal lawsuit against Wright alleging, among other things, failure to uphold the Constitution and “war crime.” The notice sought $1.5 billion, removal of Wright from office for 10 years and 300 hours of community service.
The real question is who was she expecting to collect $1.5B from? The judge?! And how’s that collection supposed to jive with him being removed from office (stable income) and 300 hours of community service (time he can’t spend working for more cash)? His bank account? Clarence Thomas has been getting paid millions of dollars under the table by billionaires for decades and even he doesn’t have that much coin to cough up at a moment’s notice! …Right? Public knowledge of his pocket is a little iffy considering his long-running tradition of not properly disclosing his finances, but the hope is that a billionaire wouldn’t beg for tips as much as he did. Then again, maybe Crow owes him a favor.
Woman Accused Of Posing As Attorney In Lancaster County Court May Need Real Lawyer [Lancaster Online]
Chris Williams became a social media manager and assistant editor for Above the Law in June 2021. Prior to joining the staff, he moonlighted as a minor Memelord™ in the Facebook group Law School Memes for Edgy T14s. He endured Missouri long enough to graduate from Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. He is a former boatbuilder who cannot swim, a published author on critical race theory, philosophy, and humor, and has a love for cycling that occasionally annoys his peers. You can reach him by email at cwilliams@abovethelaw.com and by tweet at @WritesForRent.