"I just told her I wanted to fuck her."-- Larry Leake address to a 15-year-old girl back in the seventies

[NC Judge SAM J Ervin iv REEKING SEWER OF DEPRAVITY]

That little phone call cost Leake a position in the North Carolina Senate. The crime of moral turpitude has dogged Leake and haunted him since he was caught red-handed after the girl's parents went to the police, and the police set up a sting. He called her again and she agreed to meet him at the Howard Johnson Motor Lodge on US Hwy 25. Leake, who had not given the child his name, showed up for the meeting and the police slapped the handcuffs on him.

Leake was forced to resign from the Senate by Gov. Jim Hunt who had just appointed him; but then Leake, in a very controversial sweetheart deal, was permitted to plead to a piddling lesser offense of telephone harassment because of his and his father's (A. Eldritch Leake's) political prowess in the Democratic Party.

Now there is quite noisy political chatter, especially in Madison County, that Gov. Roy Cooper is considering the appointment of Leake to a judgship.

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"NC Judge SAM J Ervin iv REEKING SEWER OF DEPRAVITY" <jimm...@gmail.com> wrote

> That little phone call cost ....

That's about the stewpidest story I dun never did saw. Good job scraping the bottom (sorry ladies) of the news barrel.

[NC Judge SAM J Ervin iv REEKING SEWER OF DEPRAVITY]

Answering an email question about Governor Jim Hunt:

Yes, Hunt was the governor then. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Governors_of_North_Carolina Note that Hunt was again elected governor after the term of Republican Jim Martin.

Leake had been appointed state Senator by Hunt just before the sex scandal erupted. Hunt then demanded Leake resign, which he did but not after much hesitation, during which time the newspapers and teevy published commentary over and over again in a heyday of criticism. I remember it well. Leake was practicing law as Harry DuMont's briefcase lackey at the time. The law firm was Uzzell & DuMont, a big firm in Asheville. The firm was later embroiled in scandal when Harry DuMont was indicted for jury tampering, under a common law count called "embracery." I'm sure the old newspaper articles will back what I wrote.

I was in the courtroom, district #2, 7th floor of the old courthouse, when Leake copped a plea of 'no contest' to telephone harassment, a petty offense. Bill Styles was the judge. The courtroom was packed.

But don't expect anyone to find those old records in the clerk's office. Two scoundrel clerks, Bob Christy and Steve Cogburn, have purged many of those old records or made them impossible to find, including convictions for Ray Elingburg and other Buncombe notables, including a skank who is now a magistrate, for running a criminal pyramid scheme out of the clerk's office called "circle of gold."

I finally got so sick and tired of practicing law in dirty rotten Asheville that I simply quit paying dues in 1986.

I have seen Leake at work. He is a slick operator and quick with words. I noticed in one of his biographies that he was Phi Beta Kappa at UNC-CH, and Hunt awarded Leake the Order of the Longleaf Pine. A consolation prize?

And notice that the lawyers have him rated high, while his clients tend to despise him:

http://www.lawyers.com/marshall/north-carolina/larry-b-leake-1403886-a/

[NC Judge SAM J Ervin iv REEKING SEWER OF DEPRAVITY]

On Friday, January 13, 2017 at 10:43:46 AM UTC-5, NC Judge SAM J Ervin iv REEKING SEWER OF DEPRAVITY wrote:
> On Thursday, January 12, 2017 at 8:12:42 PM UTC-5, NC Judge SAM J Ervin iv REEKING SEWER OF DEPRAVITY wrote:

> > That little phone call -- made from a phone booth -- cost Leake a position in the North Carolina Senate. The crime of moral turpitude has dogged Leake and haunted him since he was caught red-handed after the girl's parents went to the police, and the police set up a sting. He called her again and she agreed to meet him at the Howard Johnson Motor Lodge on US Hwy 25. Leake, who had not given the child his name, showed up for the meeting and the police slapped the handcuffs on him.

After Leake's scandal, his political enemies such as Buck Talman made up jokes about him. Talman's joke was that Leake was getting ready to run for the Senate, and he had set up campaign headquarters in a phone booth.

Ervin Ball, another republican, always had something nasty to say about Leake. For some reason he despised him. That's where the "Wawwy Weake" expression originated because Ervin was the loudest loudmouth in every restaurant and coffee shop in Asheville.

[NC Judge SAM J Ervin iv REEKING SEWER OF DEPRAVITY]

After the Uzzell & DuMont law firm busted up after the big scandal and indictment, Leake became a partner with Eddie Harrell in Harrell and Leake. If there were any brains in that outfit, it wasn't Harrell. He was a hotheaded, screaming wack. So these two were attracted to each other, as flies to shite.

One day Leake was deposing a personal injury plaintiff of mine. She had a little trouble answering one of his nasty questions and I made a gesture at her to continue. Leake screamed out, "Let the record show that plaintiff's attorney is coaching the witness!" Well, they settled with us, as usual.

Then we had this lawsuit inherited from Uzzell & DuMont over a stolen Harley-Davidson motorcycle I had bought from sleazy Bynum McCrary who kept tattooed cokeheads for mechanics and advertised them as "factory trained." I finally collected on that claim against their hidden client, Shelby Mutual of Ohio, in spite of all the dirty tactics of those two shysters obstructing pretrial discovery.
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From Asheville Topix:

[QUOTE who="D123GAAB"]It is so sad that you all have to act like this! And you wonder why no large corporate nor technology employers would even consider Asheville to open operations. It is because many of your people in the Asheville area are Damn Fools![/QUOTE]

J Calvin Hill: Suh, this is da way we has always done it. Da law is made as we go along... sohta like sausitches. We doesn't keh dat much bout educaton. Or indurstry. We likes da cotehouse dat wheh all da money is kep stowed. And I is as crooked as a cokescrew cause dat da way we likes it round heah. Me and Joolie and Paddy and Eddie da blind dude dat married da embezzaler Susie. And our carpitbagers like Sammie and Frits and Dayvit Foxx da pudgerry subowner. And my slick darktoofed cluck from up on pissgah veeyew he know how to play durdy. Don't we make one mo mottly croo? We be a gang of bruddas an sistahs. Y'all git along now cause our boys in uniform will pay a visit on you, put you ovah deh wheh dey has death pannels and cells smeared wif wall to wall chit you heah boi?

[NC Judge SAM J Ervin iv REEKING SEWER OF DEPRAVITY]

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My memory keeps getting jogged by reminiscences of Larry Leake.

Back in the 80's we had a nice cultivated lady working for us taking care of Mrs. Brigmon who was pushing 90 at the time. Her name was Dot Orr and she worked here several days a week and. She was a very conscientious caretaker for Mrs. Brigmon and quite interesting to talk to.

Somehow the subject of the infamous Larry Leake came up, and we both remarked that he had sort of 'slipped the noose' for what he had done. Then she told me she had done eldercare work in the Leake home and that Larry was often there sifting through a pile of all the embarrassing media articles about him which had been clipped and put into a scrapbook. Only he wasn't embarrassed. He got some kind of perverse pleasure of pulling them out, poring over them, and reading them, she said. "He laid them out on the furniture and viewed them all for hours as though they pleased him. It was strange."
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OK. One more anecdote about the Leakes. A sibling of Larry's is A. E. Leake, Jr., who is a local anesthesiologist. I got into a heated conversation with him in which I thought he was quite dishonest with my client. He had bought two toy poodles from her and refused to pay for them. I requested he either pay for the dogs or return them to the owner who sold them to him. First he complained that the poodles were not as advertised or promised. "So I don't owe your client anything," he snapped.

So I demanded he return the dogs. "No, I'm not going to do that either. We have become attached to them."

It was a dilemma. My client did not have the money to sue, and I declined to take the case on a contingency basis. I really don't know what happened for an outcome. But I made a mental note to never forget what a nasty person AE, Jr. was.

I remember several cases in which I had workers' compensation clients suing for their rights before the NC Industrial Commission. I recall in every case in which I was before Judge A. E. Leake that he was very kind, courteous, and fair to my clients. So I always considered him to be quite a gentleman. He acted rather quiet and meek but quite competent and reasonable, not at all loud and bombastic like Larry. Larry must have gotten that from his mama.

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"NC Judge SAM J Ervin iv REEKING SEWER OF DEPRAVITY"

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