County seeks bar investigation of defense lawyer
Charges stand for lawyer who stole from dead client
A former B.C. lawyer convicted of stealing $494,633 from a dead client’s estate has lost his bid to have the charges against him dropped after arguing that he was too senile to stand trial.
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Lawyer for Head Start manager says no ethics breach occurred
By Bill Varian, Times Staff Writer Thursday, December 30, 2010 TAMPA — An attorney for a Hillsborough County supervisor accused of having his agency purchase books written by his wife told a review panel Thursday his client had no role in the deal. He was given two more weeks to make his case. The Head Start policy council executive committee also voted against firing a second manager with the …
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Lawyer in Geoffrey Fieger’s firm wants ‘huge dough’ for Scotts woman manhandled by Kalamazoo County deputies
The two Kalamazoo County sheriff’s deputies, who misidentified a Scotts woman for a suspect in an October police chase and pulled her from her car by her hair, returned to work Dec. 16.
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Fostoria lawyer and #8217;s conviction in peephole case upset
BLADE STAFF TIFFIN — An appeals court has ruled there was not enough evidence to convict a Fostoria lawyer accused of placing a pinhole camera in a restroom at his law office. The Third District Court of Appeals reversed the conviction of Donald Guernsey, 58, on two counts of tampering with evidence, saying the evidence presented during Mr. Guernsey’s trial in Seneca County Common Pleas Court …
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County seeks bar investigation of defense lawyer
The Clark County district attorney’s office Thursday asked the Nevada State Bar to investigate whether defense lawyer Jonathan MacArthur tried to bribe a key witness in a criminal case to change testimony.
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