Attorney Caught Trying to Smuggle Marijuana to Inmate

Well, we don’t know if this attorney uses illegal substances, but he apparently knows where to get them.

A veteran attorney from Georgia was arrested for trying to smuggle marijuana to an inmate at the Richmond County Jail. The story is here. He is also being charged with influencing a witness.

Credit: Richmond County Sheriff's Office

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Texas Attorney Pleads No Contest to Crack Cocaine Charge

It took five years for this case to get to trial, but when it did a former prosecutor from Bexar County, Texas decided to plead no contest to a felony drug charge rather than face a jury.

Gammon Guinn was arrested in 2006 after police allegedly found 3.5 grams of cocaine and a crack pipe in his vehicle. See the story here. Since his arrest, Guinn completed treatment for substance abuse addiction, which must have a been a factor when the judge awarded him deferred adjudication probation. Guinn is still a practicing attorney.

Crack cocaine is a highly addictive and powerful stimulant that is derived from powdered cocaine using a simple conversion process. Crack emerged as a drug of abuse in the mid-1980s. It produces an immediate high and is easy and inexpensive to produce. See more here.

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What Was She Thinking? Female Magistrate Takes Courthouse Photos of Men Urinating

While this story does not concern substance abuse, it certainly deserves honorable mention. Florida attorney and traffic magistrate Rhonda Hollander has a strange hobby: photographing guys urinating in the courthouse men’s room. Is this an expensive hobby? Well considering it led to her arrest – it might end up costing her plenty.

She followed some guy into the men’s room and started taking pictures of him taking a leak. Then another unsuspecting fellow entered and she took his picture, too. The police came and she got into a struggle with him. The story is here and here among others.

Someone would not engage in this kind of behavior unless something was seriously wrong. So we hope that whatever caused her to do this can be identified and dealt with – in other words, we hope she will be alright.
What was she planning to do with these pictures? Was she taking them for her own personal enjoyment? Was she going to sell them to some weird twisted porn sites? We don’t want to know.

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Florida Bar Suspends Attorney For Cocaine Use

Florida attorney Hugh Henry Lee was suspended by his state bar for 30 days after testing positive for cocaine on a drug test. Lee was arrested for DUI in 2009 and entered a plea of no contest. In May, 2010, he agreed to treatment which required drug testing as part of the program. Since then, two drug tests have come back positive for cocaine, the last one in March of this year.

The story is here.

Enjoy this old public service announcement featuring Clint Eastwood:

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Florida Attorney Arrested – Allegedly Tried To Buy Oxycodone

Oxycodone – oxycodone hydrochloride- is a prescription painkiller used for the relief of moderate to severe pain. Buying it on the street without a prescription is, of course, illegal.

Orlando attorney Anthony McDonald could not reasonably have known different. Yet there he was, allegedly trying to purchase 300 oxycodone pills for $1,300 cash.

Unfortunately for him, the person from whom he was trying to buy the painkillers was an undercover cop. McDonald was arrested and charged with felony drug trafficking, which carries a maximum 25 year prison sentence if he is found guilty.

The story is here.



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Kansas Lawyer Gets Jail Time for Deadly DUI

A Kansas lawyer was sentenced to a prison sentence of 62 months after pleading no contest to drunk driving and a hit and run accident that left one man dead. The lawyer, Marc Schultz, was driving drunk with his young son in the car with him when he struck a bicyclist from behind, killing him. Schultz then fled the scene of the crime leaving the bicyclist on the side of the road because he didn’t want his son in the car with him to see the body. Apparently, the 40-year-old Schultz had three prior DUIs.

The sad story is here.



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Kentucky Attorney Arrested for Drug Trafficking

Attorneys suffer from alcohol abuse and addiction at a greater rate than the general public. I am not aware of similar studies or statistics relating to attorneys and illegal substance abuse, but at least one study has shown that if a lawyer is going to use illegal substances, cocaine is the top drug of choice.

An attorney from Madisonville, Kentucky most likely falls into that trend. According to this report, attorney William Nisbet IV was arrested last month and charged with trafficking in cocaine. If convicted he could face a 10-20 year sentence.





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