Gallegos seeks stinging rebuke from even higher court

District Attorney Paul Gallegos filed another appeal of his six-year-old lawsuit against the Pacific Lumber Company in the hope that it will be sneeringly dismissed by the highest court in California.

“I’ve exhibited my unquestioned incompetence through the years in a variety of unique settings, but there’s no sense of failure in the world to match taking a giant bag of suck like this and laying it at the foot of the state Supreme Court,” Gallegos said Tuesday in a no-holds-barred interview with the Humboldt Mirror.

“It’s exhilarating, really,” he added.

When asked for a short list of his favorite blunders, the former defense attorney said it was hard to narrow them down.

“I’ve effed-up basically every case I’ve touched in the past six years, but a high point had to have been making two judges from the appeals court actually laugh out loud a couple of times when I presented this case to them in December,” he said.

But Gallegos said his court filings do occasionally serve a serious purpose.

“This Palco suit is really about bringing the county together, and clearly it is accomplishing that,” he said. “There are so many things we can disagree about, but now virtually everyone is united in the belief that I’m a buffoon, and I believe that’s a solid starting point for future consensus.”

A headline in the Eureka Reporter stated, “Gallegos hopes fourth time’s the charm for fraud suit,” but the prosecutor said other legal strategies include crossing his fingers, wishing on a star and rubbing the lucky rabbit’s foot he carries in his briefcase along with a stack of academic papers he hopes to plagiarize some day.