Edward Rudolph Turnbull, IV v. Commission for Lawyer Discipline, Daniela Grosz, Daniel Martinez, Seana Willing, John S. Brannon, Amanda Kates, Jenny Hodgkins, and the Board of Directors of the State Bar of Texas, Cindy v. Tisdale, Steve Benesh, Laura Gibson, Kennon Lily Wooten

Court of Appeals of Texas·Decided February 7, 2025·No. 15-24-00095-CV·Published

Opinion

ACCEPTED 15-24-00095-CV FIFTEENTH COURT OF APPEALS AUSTIN, TEXAS 2/7/2025 6:12 PM Court of Appeals Number: 15-24-00095-CV CHRISTOPHER A. PRINE CLERK RECEIVED IN Trial Court Case Number: D-1-GN-24-002025 15th COURT OF APPEALS AUSTIN, TEXAS 2/7/2025 6:12:24 PM CHRISTOPHER A. PRINE Clerk Edward Rudolph Turnbull, IV v. IN THE COURT OF APPEALS Commission for Lawyer Discipline, Daniela Grosz, Daniel Martinez, Seana FIFTEENTH DISTRICT Willing, John S. Brannon, Amanda Kates, Jenny Hodgkins, and the Board AT AUSTIN, TEXAS of Directors of the State Bar of Texas, Cindy V. Tisdale, Steve Benesh, Laura Gibson, Kennon Lily Wooten, et al.

Letter addressed to the Court Clerk of the COA 15th District of Texas at

Austin.

The Public Integrity Section (PIN) is a section of the Criminal Division of the U.S.

Department of Justice charged with combating political corruption at all levels of

government through the prosecution of corrupt federal, state, and local elected

and appointed public officials. (This kind of the charge of USDOJ, Criminal

Division, Section Public Integrity Section, it includes appointed ex-officio

officials, elected and appointed officers and public employees from Public

Corporations located in any States of the United States and classified as State

Administrative Agencies as part of one judicial department of one determined state

government).

1 The Role Public Integrity Section (PIN) holds exclusive jurisdiction over

prosecution of alleged criminal misconduct by federal judges, monitors the

investigation and prosecution of election and conflict of interest crimes.

It consolidates into one unit the U.S. Department of Justice's oversight

responsibilities for prosecuting criminal abuses of the public trust by elected and

appointed government officials. In addition to prosecuting cases, PIN also advises

and assists prosecutors and agents in the field in handling public corruption cases

and having flagrant conflict of interests and practiced by state government

employees.

The Administrative history of the Public Integrity Section was created in March

1976 in the wake of the Watergate scandal. Since 1978, it has supervised

administration of the Independent Counsel provisions of the Ethics in Government

Act of 1978, which requires the Attorney General to report to the United States

Congress annually on the operations and activities of the Public Integrity

Section. Annual reports to Congress since 1978 are available on the PIN's

website. PIN's Election Crimes Branch was created in 1980 and supervises the U.S.

Department of Justice's nationwide response to voter fraud, campaign

financing offenses, and other election crimes.

See also: Public Integrity Section (official website), source: Public Integrity

Section - Wikipedia

2 From state government level perspective for Public Integrity, there is Texas

Department of Public Safety at Texas Rangers Public Corruption Unit and that is

part of the Texas Rangers Specialized Programs to fight corruption in the state of

Texas public service.

The 81st session of the Texas Legislature passed HB2086; this bill created the

Public Corruption Unit within the Texas Department of Public Safety, under the

responsibility of the Texas Ranger Division.

The Texas Rangers are committed to fighting public corruption, as it relates to

public officials, law enforcement officers, and others that hold a position of public

trust. Fighting corruption is vital to preserving the democracy.

Also, the Texas Department of Public Safety has the Texas Rangers Public

Integrity Unit and that is also part of the Texas Rangers Specialized Programs and

to fight corruption and malfeasance in the state of Texas public service.

The Texas Ranger’s Public Integrity Unit is responsible for investigating crimes

committed by state officers and state employees in the public service in the State of

Texas.

In 2015, the 84th Texas Legislature passed House Bill 1690, which created a

Public Integrity Unit within the Texas Ranger Division of the Texas Department of

Public Safety to investigate offenses against public administration.

3 About the Appellee’s Response Brief and signed by the Deputy Administrative

Counsel Royce LeMoine of the Office of the Chief Disciplinary Counsel of the

State Bar of Texas at Austin’s Headquarters Office.

The Appellee’s Response Brief shows clear conflict of interests and traffic of

influence in relation the Turnbull’s grievance complaints assigned and summarily

dismissed and being motive for one Public Integrity Investigation and from the part

of the Travis County Criminal District Attorney Office located in Austin, Travis

County, Texas or by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas and to protect the

public in general.

Royce LeMoine is not diffident to mention in his Appellee’s Response Brief and

for many times, the name of the Respondent Attorneys’ Client of showing a clear

conflict of interest and traffic of influence and why the Office of the Chief

Disciplinary Counsel of the State Bar of Texas has summarily dismissed the

grievance complaints assigned and from the Complainant Turnbull.

Also, Royce LeMoine is not diffident to mention in his Appellee’s Response Brief

that the so-called investigation and supposedly done has not been done in fact in

Bona Fide and that the subordinated employee of the Office of the Chief

Disciplinary (“OCDC”) weighted clearly about the influence of the Respondent

Attorneys and representing a big corporation and to recommend the summary

4 dismissal and from two Respondent Attorneys as subject of the grievance

complaints assigned by the Office of the Chief Disciplinary Counsel (“OCDC”).

Also, Royce LeMoine hypocritically comments that the self regulated attorney

disciplinary system adopted by the State Bar of Texas is “transparent” and

circumventing flagrantly that the same self regulated system is absolutely secretive

and when the grievance complaints are dismissed for “no just cause” by one

Summary Disposition Panel (“SDP”) of one grievance committee district of the

State Bar of Texas and having been previously determined by one subordinated

employee of the Office of the Chief Disciplinary Counsel of the State Bar of Texas

to be placed in one summary disposition docket and subsequently submitted for

one “Bobble Heads” panel called Summary Disposition Panel (“SDP”) of the

grievance committee district of the State Bar of Texas and to keep the appearance

for a summary dismissal for “no just cause” and from valid grievance complaints

assigned and previously determined by the Chief Disciplinary Counsel at Austin’s

Headquarters Office of the State Bar of Texas and containing flagrant substantial

allegations for violations of the Texas Disciplinary Rules for Professional Conduct

(TDRPC) and having been determined by the classification attorneys’ staff of the

Office of the Chief Disciplinary Counsel at Austin’s Headquarters Office and that

is part of one statewide public corporation administrative structure organization

and also being one statewide administrative agency as part of the judicial

5 department of the state government in the State of Texas and still being one

Statewide Attorneys Texas Trade Association.

Royce LeMoine circumvented the role of the subordinated employee of the Office

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Edward Rudolph Turnbull, IV v. Commission for Lawyer Discipline, Daniela Grosz, Daniel Martinez, Seana Willing, John S. Brannon, Amanda Kates, Jenny Hodgkins, and the Board of Directors of the State Bar of Texas, Cindy v. Tisdale, Steve Benesh, Laura Gibson, Kennon Lily Wooten, (Tex. Ct. App. 2025).

Edward Rudolph Turnbull, IV v. Commission for Lawyer Discipline, Daniela Grosz, Daniel Martinez, Seana Willing, John S. Brannon, Amanda Kates, Jenny Hodgkins, and the Board of Directors of the State Bar of Texas, Cindy v. Tisdale, Steve Benesh, Laura Gibson, Kennon Lily Wooten (Edward Rudolph Turnbull, IV v. Commission for Lawyer Discipline, Daniela Grosz, Daniel Martinez, Seana Willing, John S. Brannon, Amanda Kates, Jenny Hodgkins, and the Board of Directors of the State Bar of Texas, Cindy v. Tisdale, Steve Benesh, Laura Gibson, Kennon Lily Wooten) — published by Counsel Stack Legal Research, free access to 12M+ legal documents.