The Worst Lawyer in Houston? Gang-Rapist Wayne Conley Thinks He Knows.
I start the new year with my first-ever stalker, Wayne Conley.
Wayne Conley was dishonorably discharged from the U.S. Army after being convicted in a general court-martial of instigating and participating in the gang rape of an unconscious soldier, and obstructing justice regarding that crime. He’s a registered sex offender (deservedly so, unlike many) who lives with his mother in Hanford, California. He’s also accused of telephone harassment in Fresno County, California.
Wayne Conley’s open telephone harassment case.
Clearly, Wayne Conley has more than one screw loose.
I met Wayne Conley when I wrote this post (and others), calling Melina Benninghoff a dumbass for allowing her former client, Wayne, to destroy her reputation by stealing content from real bloggers. Wayne called me on the phone (his mother’s phone), and was convincing in a way that only a truthful person or a sociopath can be.
(In an abundance of compassion I later removed Melina Benninghoff’s name from the posts after talking to Wayne and to her because I believed that she had been duped by him; in hindsight I should not have, since it was entirely accurate and the site remains up in her name with her contact information. Like South Carolina criminal defense lawyer Bobby Frederick says, Melina Benninghoff “now owns this mess.”)
Wayne Conley held me, and other legal bloggers, responsible for destroying Melina Benninghoff’s online reputation (because nothing is ever the responsibility of a narcissist like Wayne). At some point, he decided that it was his mission in life to defend lawyers like Houston’s Andy Nolen, about whom I’ve had an unkind thing or three to say.
Since September, Wayne has desperately tried to get my attention. He has created numerous twitter accounts (always with fake identities), tried to post comments on my blog under other people’s names, tried to post comments on other people’s blogs under my name, posted lies (about lawyers, about his military service, about everything) on Melina Benninghoff’s blog (complete with fake comments from imaginary people), threatened to get me disbarred, left fake reviews on Avvo, and who knows what else (he has some delusion about me having a secret “network” of blogs).
I ignored Wayne for three months, until the records of his court-martial arrived and I learned (from his mother’s testimony on punishment) that his father had died when he was in second grade. Then I understood his desperate cry for attention, and thought it uncharitable not to give him some. So I published and publicized the records.
Before our interaction, Wayne was hard to Google. There are several Wayne Conleys in the world, and Wayne wouldn’t show up in the first page without his middle name (Christopher). Now, his online profile is considerably higher—and not in a good way. Most dishonorably-discharged gang rapists would probably prefer to keep their heads down than to become running online jokes like Wayne Conley.
Along with his stunted sense of self-interest, Wayne Conley has an inflated view of his own importance. Which brings us to the title of this post.
Wayne has tweeted, as @AsshatLawyer” (and also as @hanfordlawyer and @blawleriam and @myduilawyers and @lawyerblawtx and other pseudonymous accounts, but as @AsshatLawyer he has manipulated several real lawyers to engage him):
Which famous Texas criminal defense lawyer was worthy of mention as worst Lawyer in houston – Google Search http://bit.ly/7QvCWg Hint: MWB.
I think the idea is for Wayne Conley to show how he can manipulate Google search results. Which is really stupid for three reasons.
First, nobody looking for a lawyer or for information on a lawyer is ever going to search for “worst lawyer in Houston” on Google. (They’re going to search for “best criminal lawyer in Houston” or some such, or search on a particular lawyer’s name.)
Second, the idea of me as the worst lawyer in Houston is laughable. The aforementioned Andy Nolen has me beat by a country mile, and I wouldn’t even say that he is the worst lawyer in Houston. There is no best criminal lawyer for every case; the guy who is best for one case will not be best for another. I suppose the same is probably true for the worst (though the difference between worst and second-worst probably doesn’t matter if you’re the client).
And third, any Google search that Wayne Conley can make himself visible in, I can own.
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Brilliant! He really needs to just move on.
People like that don’t move on; they move in. Anyone who continues to write about such attention whores will never get them to go away. Narcissists, much like Nature herself, abhor a vacuum. Ignore him and he WILL find someone else’s chain to yank.
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