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King pushes back on posting nude photos of wife online
During a brief break in proceedings, Jack King talked on his phone and smoked a cigarette behind the court building on Broadway Tuesday. (MIKE DEAL / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS) Photo Store
Jack King insisted Wednesday morning he did not harass a former client by attempting to entice the man to seduce his wife, now a Manitoba judge.
King pleaded guilty to professional misconduct last year on a count of sexually harassing a client, Alex Chapman, in 2003. He was ordered to pay the Law Society of Manitoba $13,650, but retains his licence to practice law.
King told the Canadian Judicial Council inquiry Wednesday he rejected the term to which he pleaded, adding that he wouldn't have pressed the matter if Chapman had given any indication of discomfort.
"I pleaded guilty because as a matter of law, I was told I had no defence," King said under cross-examination from Chapman's lawyer. "I do not accept that in the usual and standard wording that I ever harassed Mr. Chapman."
Facing the inquiry for the third day, King pushed back against questions about the aftermath of his choice to splash nude photos of his wife online.
"I'm not sure you understand how terrible it was," King told inquiry lawyer Guy Pratte gruffly, as Pratte probed how King and his wife, now-Justice Lori Douglas, dealt with 2003 revelations of King's actions.
"I'm trying, sir," Pratte replied.
The nude photos of Douglas, then a lawyer, had been pasted on a website that fetishizes sex acts between white women and black men. King also used them in an attempt to entice a 2003 client, Alex Chapman, into trying to seduce his wife -- without her knowledge, both King and Douglas say.
Much of the morning session was marked by King's visibly irate responses, as the proceedings moved slowly through the last rounds of Pratte's questioning and the opening rounds of cross-examination.
At one point, King objected to a series of questions about a letter from King's lawyer to the Law Society of Manitoba.
That letter, which gave an overview of the events in question, contained a number of inaccuracies, including a statement that King, Chapman and Douglas only met for drinks once. In fact, the three twice had an encounter at Earl's on Main Street.
King firmly rejected the questions -- he told Pratte that if they were pitted against each other as trial lawyers, King would rise to object -- and that drew a tart response from the inquiry's chair.
"If you could try to respond to questions he asks, it would be helpful," Justice Catherine Fraser told King.
As the morning drew on, King also tangled with Pratte on the difference between a suggestion and an invitation, stressing that he only suggested Chapman visit his and Douglas's house, but did not extend an invitation.
King had an ally on one objection in Douglas's lawyer, Sheila Block, who repeated her Tuesday assertion that many questions amounted to a "re-trial" of King. Those questions were not relevant to answering what Douglas knew about King's actions.
Douglas faces a much steeper penalty. The inquiry panel could recommend that she be removed from the bench. She was appointed a judge in 2005 and rose to become associate chief justice of Manitoba Court of Queen's Bench.
Pratte wrapped up his questioning of King on Wednesday morning. Cross-examination by lawyers for Chapman and Douglas will continue this afternoon.
Douglas was expected to appear before the inquiry this week, but the slow pace may mean she will not take the stand until proceedings resume in September.
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