Comments on: Attorney Cannot Be Prosecuted Over Bad Advice https://www.jdjournal.com/2009/01/20/attorney-cannot-be-prosecuted-over-bad-advice/ Thu, 04 Jun 2009 20:42:28 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 By: Anonymous https://www.jdjournal.com/2009/01/20/attorney-cannot-be-prosecuted-over-bad-advice/#comment-71 Thu, 04 Jun 2009 20:42:28 +0000 https://www.jdjournal.com/?p=4280#comment-71 If you think Vinluan didn’t give “bad” advice, don’t you think that at the very least he adopted “bad” strategy in filing a case in D.C. based on human rights violation instead of filing a case for damages in NY? His erroneous strategy (perhaps it can be attributed to the practice in the Philippines where lawyers turn to administrative courts instead of filing a civil case for damages) allowed Sentosa to be on the offensive and be the one to file the civil case against his clients as well as criminal cases. I understand the need to put a spin on Vinluan as a “martyr” but the facts remain that he erred in his legal strategy. If he filed the damages suit in NY first, his clients would not have been through the wringer.

]]> By: Anonymous https://www.jdjournal.com/2009/01/20/attorney-cannot-be-prosecuted-over-bad-advice/#comment-70 Mon, 11 May 2009 21:55:26 +0000 https://www.jdjournal.com/?p=4280#comment-70 The title sets the tone for the story. “Bad advice” shouldn’t be anywhere in the title… no matter how much hairs you’d like to split or how much you’d like to cloud the article in favor of the nursing home… “bad advice” in the title was in poor taste and “bad judgment”

]]> By: Erik Even https://www.jdjournal.com/2009/01/20/attorney-cannot-be-prosecuted-over-bad-advice/#comment-69 Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:12:17 +0000 https://www.jdjournal.com/?p=4280#comment-69 I think that if you actually read the article, you will see it does not say anywhere that the advice was “bad.”

You’re referring to the title. The title is designed to get people to read the post. If the title was “Attorney Cannot Be Prosecuted Over Objectively Reasonable Advice,” no one would read the article.

Although it is not a direct quote, it is clear that District Attorney Thomas J. Spota of Suffolk County thought the advice was “bad.” Hence the title.

]]> By: Oscar Michelen https://www.jdjournal.com/2009/01/20/attorney-cannot-be-prosecuted-over-bad-advice/#comment-68 Fri, 30 Jan 2009 03:50:23 +0000 https://www.jdjournal.com/?p=4280#comment-68 As the attorney who represented Felix Vinluan in this case I must strenuously object to the wording of this article. Why do you call it “bad” advice? His advice was vindicated by the Appellate Division finding that the nurses had a right to resign. Nothing in the 13 page decision was negative towards Felix at all; the correctness and value of his advice was never called into question. So please explain to me what was bad about it and where did you get that it was bad advice?

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