Laurence "Kirk" Nurmi, the former lead defense attorney in the Jodi Arias murder trial, has lost his law license for writing a tell-all book about Arias that broke the wall of attorney-client privilege. As writer Shanna Hogan covered in a New Times feature story about Nurmi in February , the long-running Arias case massively screwed up the Arizona lawyer's life. When the televised courtroom drama became a worldwide sensation, Nurmi became a target of public hate for defending her.
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Ray Stern has worked as a newspaper reporter in Arizona for more than two decades. Karen Clark, an attorney representing Arias' interests in the Bar matter, also objected to the proposed consent agreement, writing that Nurmi may have admitted "intentional and knowing disclosure of confidences," but had not shown remorse nor taken responsibility for "repeated and intentional acts of dishonesty, deceit and misrepresentation of his knowing and intentional violation of court orders.
Nurmi filed his new consent agreement accepting disbarment Monday. The revelations in Nurmi's book could be damaging to Arias if she wins her appeal and is awarded a new trial. Details that were kept secret during the initial trial are now out in the open. If retried, Arias could face the death penalty again. Nurmi violated ethics, Clark wrote, "for the express purpose of self-enrichment and 'redemption' — and to the extreme detriment of his client.
But he was well compensated for his representation. Arias killed her lover, Travis Alexander, in the bathroom of his Mesa home in Nurmi, who was a deputy Maricopa County public defender, was appointed to defend her. But in , Nurmi resigned from that office to start a private practice and tried repeatedly to be removed from the Arias case. The court denied the request. Okay, okay, go ahead start start that 1 over sorry. Maybe what I said earlier disconnecting yourself from the idea that you have to be miserable in order to be a success right?
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