In a newspaper story on Jan. 15, 2010, concerning the Dinius suit against District Attorney Jon Hopkins and other Lake County authorities, Hopkins is quoted as saying: "There's absolutely no truth to anything they say."

Well, Jon, when you stick your glass jaw out like that begging to be hit, I feel that I simply must oblige.

So, Jon, disregarding all the other allegations, are you saying that I just imagined that you published a lengthy open letter pushing your view of the Dinius case in the Lake County News and the Record-Bee while the jury was being selected? And, I suppose I imagined that it referred to Dinius as a "drunken sailor"?

Hopkins made a mess of the Dinius case because of stubbornness, incompetence and extremely poor judgment. Based on his demonstrably false statement that "there's absolutely no truth to anything they say," it is clear that Hopkins is continuing to exercise very poor judgment and just doesn't know when to keep his mouth shut and say "no comment."

Ron Green is an attorney who lives in Lower Lake.