Jack Thompson (activist)
He is also known for his unusual filings to The Florida Bar, including challenging the constitutionality of The Florida Bar itself in 1993. Later the Florida Supreme Court described his filings as "repetitive, frivolous and insulting to the integrity of the court". On March 20, 2008, the Florida Supreme Court imposed sanctions on Thompson, requiring that any of his future filings in the court be signed by a member of The Florida Bar other than himself. In July 2008, Thompson was permanently disbarred by the Supreme Court of Florida for inappropriate conduct, including making false statements to tribunals and disparaging and humiliating litigants.
Thomas Martin Thompson
Ironically, it was the jailhouse informant witness-impeaching materials that Thomas Thompson's habeas corpus attorneys had gathered against Edward Floyd Fink which allowed the appellate attorneys for Thomas Goldstein to file his first habeas corpus appeal which eventually led to his release from prison. Goldstein's murder trial had taken place in Los Angeles County in 1980, three years prior to Thompson's rape and murder trial in neighboring Orange County in 1983. Goldstein's trial foreshadowed Thompson's trial three years later as it related to the prosecution's utilization of habitual jailhouse informant Fink.