Last February, I wrote about a colleague who was jumped an arrested by LE as he approached a house in which he had arranged for a P4P assignation on CraigsList.
The follow up to the story, 11 months later:
1. After much procedural wrangling, and many continuances of his trial, he reached a deal with the prosecutorial authorities to plead guilty to disorderly conduct, and pay a fine of $1,500.00. Some term of probation was also involved.
2. He remains with the law firm by whom he was employed at the time of his arrest.
3. I have not heard anything to indicate that the State Supreme Court has moved to take any action concerning his law license.
Actually, in Illinois, solicitation of a prostitute, the original charge, is also a misdemeanor. However, "disorderly conduct" can refer to almost anything, and has no clear sexual overtones. A friend of mine had a client who was caught in a prostitution sting after 28 years of public school teaching. If the schoolteacher/client was convicted of solicitation of a prostitute(incl. conviction pursuant to a guilty plea, he would have lost his pension. My friend worked out a deal whereby the schoolteacher instead plead guilty to disorderly conduct. Although the fine for disorderly conduct was $1,000 more than for solicitation of a prostitute, the deal save the teacher's pension--not a bad result, in my opinion.
Here in my town we have a criminal defense attorney (solo practicioner, I think; or he has one or two underling attorneys, tiny operation) who has been convicted at least once of cocaine possession. If you're here and you get in trouble, don't hire him. Somehow he keeps his license ...
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last commentHow was his bachelor party ????
Sounds like an excellent result even if he was 100% innocent.
Dang, I hate being wrong. But, thanks for the correction.