Long Island attorney Thomas Liotti wasn’t just whistling “Dixie” when he demanded that the U.S. Supreme Court overturn a public admonition he received from a “renegade” Southern federal appeals court “far far from the center of the judicial universe,” but he has been rebuffed by the high court.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in Richmond, Va., disciplined the Garden City criminal defense attorney in December for what the court viewed as a “troublesome pattern of carelessness” in his defense of a man convicted of identity theft and wire fraud in South Carolina.
