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    Leyton Lies to Families of Murder Victims AND Clients: Sued for Malpractice, Settles


    By Saul Anuzis, Section News
    Posted on Fri Oct 08, 2010 at 07:44:56 AM EST
    Tags: David Leyton (all tags)

    This morning Lansing insider publication Gongwer reported that Democratic Attorney General candidate David Leyton, a former trial attorney, recently settled a malpractice lawsuit brought against him by a former client.  Gongwer reports:

    The settlement, filed in 2003, was the result of Mr. Leyton's representation of an automobile crash victim's family. Vanessa Beck sued Mr. Leyton after he urged her to sign a waiver that then released two of the three potential defendants in her lawsuit from liability. The waiver was part of a settlement with the driver of the vehicle that struck Ronald Beck's motorcycle, killing him.

    "David Leyton wants to be the state's top attorney, but he isn't talented enough to be late-night TV's top ambulance chaser," said Michigan Republican Party Communications Director Jennifer Hoff. "Even small mistakes from the attorney general ruin lives. How can we trust Leyton with the job when he can't read the key parts of legal documents, let alone the fine print?"

    Taking a look at the actual suit and the settlement, there's more to the story than Gongwer reports.  Leyton settled the suit for over $50,000 after being accused of `misrepresenting the true nature and full legal consequences' of the settlement he coaxed his clients into.

    Is there anyone this guy won't lie to to get a settlement?

    David Leyton lied to his clients as a trial lawyer and he lied to the families of murder victims as a prosecutor in Flint.  Why on earth would Michigan voters believe a single word Leyton says as a candidate for Attorney General?

    Vanessa Beck clearly isn't the only one.

    Dan and Debbie McIntosh recently appeared on Flint Talk Radio and presented transcripts proving they were lied to by Leyton, the Genesee County Prosecutor, and tricked into signing off on a plea bargain for one of three of their son's killers.

    Leyton promised the family he would prosecute two others involved in their son's slaying if they agreed to the plea but after obtaining the McIntosh's consent later declined to bring the charges he'd promised.

    Jen Hoff is right- We can't trust David Leyton.

    < The McIntoshs talk about their son Adam and how they were tricked by David Leyton Gen Co Prosecutor | A Friday Divertere >


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    Brenda Simpson too... (none / 0) (#1)
    by Corinthian Scales on Fri Oct 08, 2010 at 08:49:56 AM EST
    Brenda is the mother of poisoned 11-year-old Christopher Alan Brown.

    Although Simpson said she is happy with the convictions, she believes the case should have been tackled at a local level by Leyton.

    "I pleaded with their office to prosecute the case. It was a good case ... and he refused to do it," she said. "If it hadn't been for the attorney general's office, I would have never had justice for Alan."

    The list of names that David Leyton has f#@%ed over in this state never seems to reach an end.  Read the rest here.

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