Matt/Jubal Cunningham wrote a post today over at Red County about the extension of Courtney Rychel’s temporary restraining order against failed Democratic Supervisorial candidate Hoa Van Tran’s campaign manager, Edgardo Reynoso, who is State Senator Lou Correa’s brother-in-law. In his post Cunningham explained that the TRW was extended primarily because Reynoso’s lawyer was going to be on vacation. However an source in the Van Tran camp explained to me today that the major reason for extending the TRO was becuase Rychel still has not hired a lawyer. That is odd as the Democratic Party of Orange County is replete with lawyers. That is the last thing they are short on.
Apparently Reynoso’s lawyer, Do Phu, has assigned his best lawyer to the case, according to my source. Not sure that will help. Consider this excerpt from Matt’s post:
There’s more to report, but let’s examine a strange aspect of Edgardo’s retaliatory lawsuit.
The alleged Edgardo road rage incident took place on May 21 at around 12:30 p.m. Yet in his lawsuit, Edgardo’s alibi is that he was in his office at that time with the campaign treasurer, and that Hoa Van Tran, Kimchi Nguyen and someone else are witnesses to that.
Which may very well be true, since Edgardo swears in the lawsuit that phone call with all those witnesses took place on May 22.
I wonder what law schools produced these Trannie lawyers?
this does NOT make sense said:
You left out the fact that it was Courtney who asked for the continuance because she was unable to find an attorney to represent her on such short notice.
Funny…wasn’t this hearing about the TRO brought forth by Courtney? Thus how come she wasn’t prepared for her own hearing? And didn’t Edgardo have the same amount of time to prepare? This doesn’t make sense.
Courtney, for your sake, I hope you find a good attorney who will represent your best interest, and NOT anybody else’s…
ooops…sorry this response was meant for the OCLiberal folks. Thank you for publishing it anyway. I guess Prevatt is too much of a controlling-freak to publish comments from people who differ in opinions than his. And I thought we were rid of censorship way back when…
However an source in the Van Tran camp explained to me today that the major reason for extending the TRO was becuase Rychel still has not hired a lawyer.
Who’s the source? Sean Mill?
I was there, remember? Sean wasn’t.
The Commissioner only wanted to give a two week extension for Rychel to get a lawyer, and Rychel agreed to that. Thuy Nguyen piped up to object, saying she was on vacation June 14-21. Her obvious goal was for Rychel to get, at most, and extension until June 13. Instead, it caused the judge to give Rychel a little more than two weeks.
(BTW, ART — I realize you think referring to Hoa as “Van Tran” is cute and clever, but it’s just confusing.)
Apparently Reynoso’s lawyer, Do Phu, has assigned his best lawyer to the case, according to my source.
If she was Phu’s best lawyer, Edgardo has problems.
Art,
That is odd as the Democratic Party of Orange County is replete with lawyers. That is the last thing they are short on.
Maybe it has not reached your level of attention, but you might consider that the TRO was not filed by, or on behalf of, the Democratic Party of Orange County. This is not their complaint, therefore your observation is absurd. Also, there are plenty of Republican and DTS attorneys. They are not all Democrats.
Have you considered that Courtney may not have the benefit of free attorney services like Reynoso. Of course, maybe you think that since a victim of harassment and threats might not have the money for an attorney they should not file a request for a Restraining Order.
And you’re a certified harassment trainer?
Chris,
And yet Misha Houser is getting help from a Dem lawyer, Steve Young. And even though the DPOC itself is not a party to all this, guess what? The DPOCs reputation is going to hell in a handbasket as these cases proceed.
I am no fan of Reynoso by the way, but he is entitled to a defense. And Courtney is going to have to prove her allegations. She really should have a lawyer helping her. Maybe Dan C. can help her? He seems to think he is a lawyer…