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Lawyers Acting Badly

A Jonesboro attorney was fined $2,500 and suspended for 3 months for trying to coerce a client to have sex with him.   I thought people normally went to jail for that....

http://www.kait8.com/global/story.asp?s=9994353

For all the facts from the discipline committee, go here: http://courts.arkansas.gov/opc/20090226/2007-021.pdf

 

 

Posted by Hoglawyer on March 12, 2009 12:04 PM |

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so he got suspended from the practice of law for 102 days, correct? And he hired 3 attorneys to represent him at the hearing, asa hutchinson v.2.0 and asa hutchinson v.3.0 evidently, along with an attorney named Bacon.

I'll bet that set him back a pretty penny in fees. More than he would've made in 102 days? who knows, right?

Posted by: tina [TypeKey Profile Page] | March 12, 2009 08:06 PM

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