In the latest piece of bad legal news for Rudy Giuliani, his lawyers no longer want to represent him in a civil case stemming from his defamation of former Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, who are attempting to collect on the multimillion dollar judgment they won against him.
The specific reason or reasons for the two lawyers’ requested withdrawals aren’t fully clear because the court filing asking for withdrawal is partially redacted.
However, the filing on Wednesday from lawyer Kenneth Caruso, which was echoed by lawyer David Labkowski in his own filing, says the grounds for his withdrawal motion “arise under Professional Rule 1.16(c)(4), (6) and (7).” He noted that the rule provides that:
a lawyer may withdraw from representing a client when: . . . (4) the client insists upon taking action with which the lawyer has a fundamental disagreement; . . . (6) the client insists upon presenting a claim or defense that is not warranted under existing law and cannot be supported by good faith argument for an extension, modification, or reversal of existing law; [or] . . . (7) the client fails to cooperate in the representation or otherwise renders the representation unreasonably difficult for the lawyer to carry out employment effectively[.]
The request followed a hearing last week when the judge called it “farcical” that Giuliani doesn’t know where his assets are located. To the extent that Giuliani may be insisting that his lawyers continue to mount a farcical defense on his behalf, they appear to have reached their breaking point.
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This article was originally published on MSNBC.com
