The state judicial office that prosecutes lawyer misconduct wants attorney Norman Pattis suspended from the practice for six months for what appears to have been the inadvertent disclosure of confidential medical and psychiatric records of relatives of the Sandy Hook families who now have won $1.4 billion in damages from his client, Infowars broadcaster Alex Jones.
The records in question are about 4,000 pages of medical records — records which were to have been protected by an unusually stringent court order — provided to Pattis as part of the mutual exchange of information between the parties in the months leading to the trial, which began in September.
The closely guarded records, which reflect medical, psychiatric and counseling involving families who had experienced the violent murders of 5- and 6-year-old children, were among nearly 400,000 pages of materials turned over to Jones. Most if not all the records were put on a portable computer hard drive in the possession of Pattis’ law office.
