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Date Posted: 11:40:57 07/10/02 Wed
He's been in the legal field for 50 years! Yikes how old is this dude?! LOL Guess the little Kalamazoo attorney couldn't handle this magnitude of case afterall.
Source: www.sun-herald.com/NewsArchive2/071002/tp5np4.htm?date=071002&story=tp5np4.htm
Miami attorney to file suit against Springer
Sarasota murder victim's family strikes out at tabloid talk show
SARASOTA -- A high profile Miami defense attorney, representing the family of murder victim and former "Jerry Springer Show" guest Nancy Campbell, said Tuesday he will file a lawsuit against the tabloid-style talk show.
Campbell was found dead in her Sarasota home on July 24, 2000 -- only hours after a Springer show episode aired, in which Ralf Panitz and his wife Eleanor accused Campbell of stalking them. Panitz had been married to Campbell.
In May of this year, Panitz was convicted of second-degree murder for beating his ex-wife, Campbell, to death. Panitz is serving a life sentence for the crime.
Ellis Stuart Rubin was asked by Campbell family attorney Paul Vlachos to represent the family in the lawsuit, which Rubin said will be filed in the 12th Circuit Court in Sarasota.
"I'm drafting the lawsuit as we speak," Rubin said from his Miami office Tuesday. "I will be in Sarasota Wednesday to file it."
Rubin would not release what the complaint entails or how much money the family is seeking in damages.
"All of that will be released Wednesday," he said.
CHECK THIS BULLSHIT OUT:
Springer, who has a home in Sarasota, told the TV news program "Sarasota News Now" that he doesn't remember the trio.
''It's my name on the show, but what do I know about it? It sounds awful, but I don't know these people. I show up and do the show,'' Springer told the cable television outlet in August 2000. "Obviously this is a horrible situation. And I know that our company is cooperating fully with the police, and I hope they find the person that killed her."
HA! JUST HIS NAME ON THE SHOW!
Calls to Springer where not immediately returned Tuesday.
Rubin's legal career spans almost 50 years. He has defended celebrities such as Watergate figures E. Howard Hunt and Frank Sturgis, former football star Mercury Morris, actress Hedy Lamarr, singer Connie Francis, comedian Jackie Mason and the Guardian Angels. He has participated in more than 5,000 civil and criminal cases and, according to his biography, is the only attorney in American history to be jailed for contempt when he refused to let a judge order him to represent a murder suspect he believed would commit perjury.
More locally, Rubin represented missing 4-year-old Pilar Rodriguez's father, Marco Rodriguez, and baby-sitter Melissa Cooper, in a wrongful death suit against Keith Wilson.
In that case, while Cooper was baby-sitting Pilar, she took the child 135 miles across the state from her Hollywood home to Punta Gorda for three weeks to visit her then-boyfriend Wilson. Cooper told investigators Wilson fatally beat the little girl, then buried her, but wasn't sure where. Wilson denied harming the child. No arrests have been made and Pilar is still missing.
Rubin is not the first high-profile attorney to be involved with the Panitz case.
Geoffrey Fieger, a Michigan attorney, represented Panitz during his two-week trial. Fieger is known for defending suicide doctor Jack Kevorkian and suing the Jenny Jones show on behalf of the survivors of a guest who was shot to death by a man he'd confessed having a crush on during the show.
GEOFF COULD HAVE DONE THIS CASE WITH A BLINDFOLD ON AFTER DOING THE JJ TRIAL. GUESS NANCY'S SONS DON'T FEEL THE SAME WAY, OR GEOFF DIDN'T WANT ANY PART OF IT FOR WHATEVER REASON.
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