Caballero & Leeds Thumped Badly in Court

I hear people say that Theresa Caballero is such a great lawyer. They are apologists for her behavior and attempt to rationalize it by saying that they might not agree with her tactics, but she’s a good lawyer.

Many would debate that.

For example, as I have previously written, Theresa Caballero received a pretty good thumping from a federal court judge a while back.

Well , Caballero subpoenaed around 15 people for a simple hearing in the Arditti case.
The attorneys that represent each of the people subpoenaed made motions to quash. In layman’s terms, the attorneys were asking the judge to excuse their clients from the legal proceeding because they didn’t have anything to do with the case.

The judge agreed and granted ALL of the motions to quash.

What that means is that Theresa Caballero and Stuart Leeds lost nearly every single motion they put before the court.

Apologists for Caballero and Leeds might find that one a bitter pill to swallow, but the bottom line is that they lost at every turn on the subpoenas.

What I found most interesting was the fact that Caballero and Leeds actually subpoenaed Joe Spencer, Arditti’s former attorney. This is something that many will point to when apologists for Leeds and Caballero make the claim about the two being great lawyers.

Many critics will say that it is a huge mistake to subpoena Spencer for two reasons. Number one, he can’t say anything because of attorney-client privilege, so subpoenaing Spencer is, in my opinion of course, a colossal waste of time.

The only way Spencer would be free to say anything is if Arditti waived her attorney-client privilege.

The judge hearing the motions, a visiting judge named Tom Lee, a retired state district judge, ruled against Caballero on Spencer and all the other witnesses.

You’ll start to hear people that carry water for Leeds and Caballero try to come up with a bright spot for the two during Friday’s hearing. The visiting judge did instruct the District Attorney’s office to comply with the discovery process. The DA’s office already complied with discovery, but that was when Arditti was being represented by Spencer.

The judge ordered the DA to basically make a second copy for Leeds and Caballero. Whoopty freakin’ do.