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Alton H. Maddox, Jr. is a lawyer who represented manslaughter victim Michael Griffith and Tawana Brawley. Maddox was found liable for making two defamatory statements about Steven Pagones, the assistant district attorney accused by Brawley, and disbarred in 1990 when he refused to attend a hearing concerning his conduct in that case. |
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'''Alton H. Maddox, Jr.''' is a [[lawyer]] who was disbarred following his involvement in the [[Tawana Brawley rape allegations]]. Maddox, [[C. Vernon Mason]] and [[Al Sharpton]] were successfully sued over the matter and ordered to pay damages to [[Steven Pagones]], the assistant district attorney he defamed. He is a supporter of the [[anti-Semitism]] of [[Louis Farrakhan]] and [[Khalid Abdul Muhammad]]; in reference to Farrakhan's calling Jews "bloodsuckers", Maddox said "You'd better be glad that the only thing we are doing is calling you bloodsuckers."<ref>http://www.adl.org/issue_nation_of_islam/reports/prelude.pdf , page 5</ref> Later, when Muhammad was fired by Farrakhan for a racist and anti-Semitic speech at Kean College, Maddox stayed with Muhammad.<ref>{{cite news |first=Peter |last=Noel |title=Rage Against Muhammad |url=http://www.villagevoice.com/news/9834,noel,3378,1.html |publisher=[[The Village Voice]] |date=August 19 - 25, 1998 |accessdate=2007-12-20 }}</ref> Maddox and his group, the United African Movement, have been fined by New York City's Commission on Human Rights for denying people access to their public meetings on the basis of race.<ref>http://www.nyls.edu/pages/457.asp</ref> In 1996 Maddox was ordered to pay New York State $1,000 in legal costs for filing a false complaint of racial bias. He had alleged that he had had to apply to represent an indigent defendant in a murder case, while two lawyers who were white had been appointed to represent the other defendant in the case without having to apply. The state showed evidence that in fact, the two lawyers had applied and Maddox had filed a discrimination suit instead of going through the applications process. [[Michael Mukasey]], at that time a Federal judge, ordered Maddox to pay New York State the legal costs it had incurred defending against the suit.<ref>{{cite news |first=Robert |last=McFadden |title=Maddox is Ordered to Pay $1,000 For Filing a False Bias Complaint |url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DEED7133DF936A15751C1A96E948260 |publisher=New York Times |date=[[1988-12-25]] |accessdate=2007-12-20 }}</ref> Maddox was the defense lawyer for one of the two men hired by [[Marla Hanson]]'s landlord to mutilate and disfigure her; Maddox's tactics of assaulting Hanson's character on racial and sexual grounds brought considerable attention to the trial.<ref>{{cite news |first=George |last=James |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Man Given 5-To-15-Year Term In Model's Slashing |url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DEFD81139F931A25756C0A961948260 |publisher=New York Times |date=[[1987-05-12]] |accessdate=2007-12-20 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |first=E. E. |last=Shipp |title=Defense Lawyers' Tactics: Unfair Or Just Aggressive? |url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DEFDC1038F932A15757C0A961948260 |publisher=New York Times |date=[[1987-04-21]] |accessdate=2007-12-20 }}</ref> Maddox represented the family of manslaughter victim [[Michael Griffith (manslaughter victim)|Michael Griffith]] and in that capacity caused controversy by accusing the [[NYPD]] and Commissioner [[Benjamin Ward]] of a cover-up.<ref>{{cite news |first=James |last=Barron |title=Ward Renews Attack on Lawyer in Beating Case |url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE4D61E3DF93AA35752C0A961948260 |publisher=New York Times |page=B5 |date=[[1987-01-09]] |accessdate=2007-12-20 }}</ref> Maddox has also written of his belief that the [[United States Constitution]] was written by "the [[Illuminati]], using the [[Free Masons]] as a front."<ref>http://www.amsterdamnews.com/news/Article/Article.asp?NewsID=84266&sID=34</ref> |
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Revision as of 17:24, 3 January 2008
Alton H. Maddox, Jr. is a lawyer who represented manslaughter victim Michael Griffith and Tawana Brawley. Maddox was found liable for making two defamatory statements about Steven Pagones, the assistant district attorney accused by Brawley, and disbarred in 1990 when he refused to attend a hearing concerning his conduct in that case.
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