Well, look who’s resurfaced.

Attorney who filed lawsuit over Omaha bar owner’s suicide resurfaces (Omaha World-Herald)

The bar owner in question was the man who killed African-American man James Scurlock outside his bar, claiming he “feared for his life.” After the district attorney declined to investigate, statewide protests erupted, resulting in a grand jury being convened.

The grand jury handed down a murder indictment against the bar owner, who then fled to Oregon to evade arrest. He killed himself there.

The attorney who filed a wrongful-death lawsuit over Omaha bar owner Jake Gardner’s suicide resurfaced Wednesday after a mysterious two-week absence from court proceedings.

John Pierce, a Los Angeles attorney who gained celebrity by briefly representing gunman Kyle Rittenhouse and partnering with one of Donald Trump’s lawyers, had not shown up for several hearings on behalf of those accused in the Jan. 6 riots at the U.S. Capitol building.

Wednesday, he resumed his representation of his clients after what he said was a 12-day hospital stay. In a statement, he didn’t give a reason for his hospitalization, although his associate had told the court he was battling COVID-19.

“I am pleased to report that on Sunday, September 5, 2021, I was released from an LA-area hospital following a 12-day stay,” Pierce wrote to the court. “I was not ‘missing’ or anything of the sort.”

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His law firm gave all sorts of ridiculous reasons for his disappearance, none of them admitting “hospitalised with Covid-19.”