Tom Dunnwald in the news!
February 18th, 2011
Just the kind of press we all love, getting ejected from a hearing for calling the other side on their “crap.” In a criminal case, the prosecutor is required to turn over everything they’ve got against the defendant. The prosecutor hasn’t, and yet the judge seems to think it’s OK to go forward without it, and that it’s a problem to object. EH???? So there’s Tom, defending his client and their right to get the info, and the judge is telling him to shut up. AND THEN THE PHONE RINGS!!! Oh great… (hope the phone tune was a good one!)
Back at Clean Water Action, I learned from exchanging spitballs in board meetings that Dunnwald has an attitude a lot like mine, and he’s had some great legal successes in the shit-strewn land use area of feedlots. And he represented my buddy Victor in the Northfield shit-storm mess. Yes, there’s a theme. And he’s one of the few attorneys I’d recommend. That’s Tom Dunnwald, partner of the equally talented Sonja Peterson, hence Dunnwald & Peterson!
Here’s the article about yesterday’s hearing, it was copied in the STrib.
Attorney’s outburst halts hearing
By Dan Nienaber The Mankato Free Press
Thu Feb 17, 2011, 08:20 PM CST“The defendant is a mumbler,” Rovney said.
Dunnwald stood up, waived his arm toward Rovney and barked at Johnson.
“This is utter crap,” he said. “Never in court have I seen this.”
As a bailiff made his way toward the attorney, Johnson told him to calm down.
“Mr. Dunnwald, sit down and be quiet or I will have a bailiff remove you,” Johnson said.
Dunnwald said he would remove himself. Johnson said he should.
“I’m ordering you out. Go ahead.”
Johnson said they needed to find a way to get along before ending the hearing.
“It’s not Mr. Berry’s fault that you two don’t get along,” he said.