Kelly Soo Park's Attorneys Withdraw As Counsel. Won't Take One Hundred Thousand Dollars From Frontline Medical.
By Lonce LaMon - May 21, 2011
Court proceedings for Kelly Soo Park, accused murder suspect of Juliana Redding, a Munir Uwaydah, M.D. girlfriend, got going an hour late yesterday morning in Department 109 of the downtown Los Angeles Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center, and in hindsight it’s easy to understand why.
Kay Rackauckas, Kelly Soo Park’s attorney, had sprung a Motion To Withdraw As Counsel on the judge at 4:56 pm the late afternoon before, Thursday, May 19th. So, it can be conjectured that the Honorable Kathleen Kennedy needed some time to read it.
From 9:00 am to 10:00 am, Kelly Soo Park and her constant companion in court, an attractive slender woman of middle age with brown-auburn hair who won’t tell me her name, sat together most of the time on a bench in the Court House hallway close by Department 109 by themselves as they and everyone else waited around. Both Kelly and her friend were wearing black pants. Kelly regularly wears black pants on her tall model’s figure. This time she wore a grey pair of high heels with refined pointed toes and stiletto heals which were very classy and patrician in design. She had on her off-white trench coat which falls just above the knees. She smiled radiantly a couple of times to people who spoke to her.
Her defense counsels, Jennifer Keller and Kay Rackauckas, stood in the center of the hallway talking with a large man who looked like he could be a linebacker. Kelly joined them and the group of four talked. Other people with an interest in this case hung around playing the same waiting game. Greg Fisher, a producer from CBS’s 48 Hours, was there too talking to different individuals. NBC’s Dateline camera man, Sandy Spooner, was set up inside the court room ready to shoot.
So everybody waited until finally the nod was given. The Honorable Kathleen Kennedy took to the bench, saw Kay Rackauckas and Jennifer Keller standing before the defense end of the table without Kelly Soo Park, and asked Kelly Soo to come forward out of the audience seats. Eric Harmon was the Deputy District Attorney there representing The People.
The judge asked counsel to state their appearances and then she dropped the bomb that at exactly 4:56 pm in the late afternoon-early evening of the day prior, she had received the defense counsels' motion to withdraw as counsel.
“Ms. Park is interviewing new counsel,” Kay Rackauckas said. She further explained that Kelly Soo needed appropriate time to select new counsel.
Judge Kathleen Kennedy: When does she want to return?
Kay Rackauckas: End of June? June the 30th, your honor?
There was some short discussion between Kay Rackauckas and Kelly Soo Park on an appropriate date, and then another response to the judge and then discussion with Eric Harmon. Harmon had an objection to the date but the judge overruled it.
Judge Kathleen Kennedy: Ms. Park, do you agree to waive time?
Kelly Soo Park assented.
Kay Rackauckas then explained that a $100,000 fee had been paid to her and her partner from Frontline Medical and that she wouldn’t accept it. Frontline Medical is owned by Munir Uwaydah, M.D. and Paul Turley, D.C. and a couple of other more subordinate partners.
Kay Rackauckas: A $100,000 fee has been raised based upon conflict. We don’t want the money. We are asking the court for guidance concerning the $100,000. For Frontline gave $100,000.
Then the judge asked Eric Harmon for his two cents on what he thinks should be done. Harmon responded by saying that the hundred grand could be put into an escrow account until the money could be sorted out.
Kelly Soo Park, right center, with her long black hair reaching below her shoulder blades, crosses the street at Temple and North Broadway at the northwest end of the court house arm-in-arm with her friend with the auburn-brown hair.
Eric Harmon: Possibly it could be some ill gotten money. These companies are under investigation.
Kay Rackauckas: The investigation has been going on for a year. We’re giving the money back to Frontline.
Then, the judge authoritatively replied:
Judge Kathleen Kennedy: Leave it in your trust account. If some party feels they have some kind of claim to it, then we will hear it. Let’s wait until June 30th, and if no party claims it, I’m going to order that it be sent back to the party that sent it. I’m ordering you back on June 30th at 8:30 am.
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