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WIllie Gary -- The New Doctor Detroit??

The always-flamboyant Willie Gary spread his "Wings of Justice" far and wide and landed improbably in front of cameras in the beautiful city of Detroit:

Gary, a Florida lawyer whom the Miami Herald says has built a fortune by winning cases worth hundreds of millions of dollars, said he came to Detroit at Kilpatrick?s request. But he said he is still trying to determine if the ex-mayor has a case.

?What I?m doing is, we?re just kind of doing some due diligence to make sure that in the process of all of this that there were no violations of his rights,? Gary said. ?He understands what he?s facing. He?s paid his dues. He?s done what the system has asked him to do. But along the way we are concerned that there may have been some violations of his rights. We think that the process has to work for everybody, regardless of who you are.?

Gary declined to say which of Kilpatrick?s rights may have been violated. Gary was asked if he might sue SkyTel, the company that leased the city text messaging devices on which Kilpatrick and his former chief of staff and lover sent incriminating messages.

All he would say about potential targets was that he was concerned with Kilpatrick?s rights ?during the case, the rights with all of the evidence, the rights with respect to just how certain matters were handled, how certain matters were dealt with in terms of and specifically in terms of some of the records that were out, that got out.?

The Free Press reported last year about text messages that showed Kilpatrick and his former chief of staff and lover, Christine Beatty, lied during a police whistle-blower case when they denied having an affair and trying to fire a deputy police chief investigating the mayor?s inner circle. The pair?s attempts to cover up the lies cost taxpayers more than $9 million and prompted the Wayne County prosecutor to file 15 felony charges against them.

Gotta love Willie, smooth as silk, diligently diagnosing a case.

But a suit against Skytel? If they are city text messaging devices, what expectations of privacy are there when you send your lover messages using city property?

How would I know -- let's ask Al Carvalho!

Full post as published by South Florida Lawyers on February 03, 2009 (boomark / email).