{"id":23001,"date":"2011-04-19T11:37:21","date_gmt":"2011-04-19T15:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=23001"},"modified":"2011-04-19T11:38:33","modified_gmt":"2011-04-19T15:38:33","slug":"searights-lawyer-admits-lying-for-client","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=23001","title":{"rendered":"Searight&#8217;s lawyer admits lying for client"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22961\">The other day, on a tip from our buddy Doug Sterner<\/a>, an author of the Stolen Valor Act, we reported that David Searight&#8217;s lawyer got him off lightly because Robert Convissar, said his client won the Navy Cross and two Purple Hearts in the Middle East and had no prior criminal record. Now his lawyer is sputtering to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/news\/2011\/04\/marine-faker-navy-cross-court-041811w\/\">Marine Corps Times<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWhile my client is in fact an honorably discharged Marine, he did not receive the Navy Cross,\u201d Convissar said in a statement. \u201cI misspoke in court at the time of sentencing. I have apologized to the court for the misinformation provided on behalf of my client.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Convissar said he \u201cunknowingly misrepresented the facts\u201d in court.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI deeply regret it, and I apologize to all United States Marines, active and retired, who serve and had served our country with honor, valor and with great personal sacrifice,\u201d he said in his statement. \u201cI do thank you for bringing this to the attention of the court and myself and hope you can accept my apology.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>More like &#8220;ignorantly misrepresented the facts&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>With Searight\u2019s military service in question, [Susan Bjornholm, a Niagara County assistant district attorney] said her office will investigate whether he could face future charges.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Charge the lawyer, too. I mean, who would suspect that a criminal would lie?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day, on a tip from our buddy Doug Sterner, an author of the Stolen &hellip; <a title=\"Searight&#8217;s lawyer admits lying for client\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=23001\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Searight&#8217;s lawyer admits lying for client<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal","category-phony-soldiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}