Louisiana anesthesiologist Dr. Glen Hurlston, writing under the nom de plume "Law Abiding Citizen" to draw further attention to the fact he isn’t one, has sent this blog a note that not only defies a court-sanctioned gag order, but basically admits that all the legal action he and his cohort in intimidation, former Kyle police officer Jesse Espinoza, have filed are without merit and designed solely to outlast the City and coerce it into giving them a huge financial settlement.
This latest letter, which I interpreted as a direct threat, is one of many Hurlston has sent me using both his real name and his favorite masquerade all of which seem to be in direct violation of a gag order imposed on all parties involved a lawsuit Hurlston filed in December 2013 against the City of Kyle, the City of Princeton, Kyle Police Chief Jeff Barnett, Princeton Police Lieutenant Robert Mtchnik and others alleging a string of "unlawful police actions" resulting in "significant and severe emotional distress; physical pain and suffering; emotion pain and distress; loss of income; and other damages."
Espinoza was suspended from the Kyle police force on charges he supplied Hurlston with inside information on Barnett and in return for family vacations with Hurlston in San Antonio and Florida as well as a $5,000 contribution to Espinoza’s on-line fund-raising campaign to help pay for his son’s cancer treatments. Espinoza’s appeal of that suspension was delayed indefinitely last week, ironically because the hearing administrator believed a full and "clean" hearing on the matter would be impossible because the gag order that Hurlston continues to violate would limit full and complete testimony from Chief Barnett. What’s even more ironic is that the motion for the continuation, until after Hurlston’s suit is settled, was made by Espinoza’s attorney, lending further credence to the idea that Hurlston’s and Espinoza’s legal strategy is simply stretch out the legal actions so long the city will give up and cry "mercy" because of the expenses involved.
Hurlston’s latest letter to me was in response to an item I wrote for this blog about Kyle’s November sales tax revenues. The letter stated:
"Ask them how much they spent in lawyers defenses with Barnett and three more lawsuits yet to be filed all supported by myself. I will bankrupt them into submission. You see it cost me about ten dollars for every thousand they spend in legal cost. The reason is they use a corrupt law firm no one else will be their lawyer and play their corrupt game. I will force the city into the tens of millions."
Hurlston revealed himself to be "Law Abiding Citizen" in an earlier e-mail he sent me Nov. 14 using the phony moniker: "…my name is Glen Hurlston and I have no fear of the bogus gag order they are hiding behind because Barnett unlike myself is afraid to testify because he is guilty and would be caught in his lies and trying to explain his actiomd (sic) while he had nr (sic) falsely arrested. Glen Hurlston M. D."
To avoid appearances of conflict of interest, Kyle officials convinced former Waxahachie Police Chief Charles Edge to oversee KPD’s investigation of Espinoza. On Nov. 6, Hurlston wrote this e-mail to me concerning Edge, whom Hurlston called (the misspelling is Hurlston’s) "a well knoe idiot.":
"Has (sic) I recalled you wrote an article on what Chief Edge said that Jessie ESPINOZA lied about. Edge asked him if he spoke to me the night of city council meeting and he rrsponded (sic) he probably did. That's because it was a year earlier and Jessie being the officer he is he would have to check his phone records to make sure but said he probably did contact me. At that point Yge (sic) acting Chief Edge which by the way was brought in by the same law firm to prosecute Jessie and was a hired gun claimed he lied because he should have said yes. Absolutely absurd reasoning but chief Edge is a well knoe (sic) idiot in his town. He also said he can tell Jessie was lying because he would look to his left. Well he didn't realize Jessie is left handed and if you believe in that nonsense in the first place than being left handed makes a different (sic). Chief Edge what can you say about this guy the evidence and his testimony speak for itself."
In an e-mail dated March 17, meant, he wrote, for "City of Kyle Council members and others," Hurlston wrote this about Edge: "Chief Edge was by no means an impartial neutral party but yet a hired gun to eliminate Jessie Espinoza from the police force."
In another letter, dated Oct. 31, which I personally found particularly disgusting and offensive on Hurlston’s part because of disparaging comments he made about my son, an outstanding man of the highest character Hurlston has never even met, the doctor wrote the following in response to my story on Espinoza’s latest lawsuit: "I am willing to give you the benefit of the doubt because you are probably drinking the city koolaid. But if you had a copy of the arbitration hearing that the city has refused to release even though ordered to do so by the Texas attorney General you would no (sic) that Mr. ESPINOZA Never lied and neither did I when I testified in federal depositions or in the arbitration that I had gifted him 5000 dollars for his child ridden with cancer. Your son who is a chiropractor doesn't understand true illness and the cost of real medical therapy and apparently you don't either. But what I find more disgusting is the use of this child cancer and the donation I made to rid of it is being used by the likes of people like you and Barnett to hide the real truth. This city lies and the police lie to cover their criminal activity and now you have lied."
Hurlston’s words speak for themselves.
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