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Article • August 1, 2025 • from PLN August, 2025
Alabama DOC Attorneys Reprimanded for Filing AI-Written Briefs in Prisoner’s Suit by Chuck Sharman The federal court for the Northern District of Alabama issued an order on May 16, 2025, demanding that attorneys representing the state Department of Corrections (DOC) show cause why they should not be sanctioned for filing …
California Attorney Disbarred for Deceiving Prisoners Seeking Resentencing by Chuck Sharman Los Angeles attorney Aaron Spolin pleaded no contest to misconduct on June 17, 2025, agreeing to be stripped of his law license because he “promoted false hopes in his clients and their families that the clients’ sentences would be …
Disbarred Cincinnati Defense Attorney Who Defrauded Prisoner Clients Gets Three-Year Sentence by On March 10, 2025, the federal court for the Southern District of Ohio sentenced former Cincinnati defense attorney Richard Louis Crosby III to 37 months in federal prison for Social Security fraud. The 37-year-old pleaded guilty in July …
Nebraska Supreme Court Spanks Attorney General, Orders Felons Be Allowed to Vote by Voting rights for Nebraskans with felony convictions were up in the air until October 16, 2024. That’s when the state Supreme Court ruled against Attorney General Mike Hilgers (R), who had declared a new re-enfranchisement law unconstitutional …
Article • October 15, 2024 • from PLN October, 2024
Third Circuit Finds Relation-Back Rule Misapplied to Philadelphia Prisoner’s “Crappy” Ordeal Lawsuit by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On March 21, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit vacated summary judgment in favor of a Philadelphia Department of Corrections (DOC) guard, who was accused of leaving …
Article • October 15, 2024 • from PLN October, 2024
California Bar Accuses L.A. Lawyer of Deceiving Prisoners Seeking Resentencing by The California Bar filed disciplinary charges on August 26, 2024, against Los Angeles attorney Aaron Spolin, 39, accusing him of moral turpitude, charging unconscionable fees and 16 other violations of professional conduct rules and the state business code. After …
Article • August 15, 2024 • from PLN August, 2024
Texas Prosecutor Gets Fine, Probated Bar Suspension After Jailing Woman for Abortion by On January 25, 2024, the Texas Bar Association issued a probated suspension to Starr County District Attorney Gocha A. Ramirez, after finding he “sought to pursue criminal homicide charges against an individual for acts clearly not criminal” …
Article • May 1, 2024 • from PLN May, 2024
Families of New Jersey Jail Suicide Victims Still Waiting for Settlement Payouts by Families who lost loved ones to suicide in New Jersey’s Cumberland County Jail (CCJ) were still waiting in early March 2024 for payouts from settlements reached two years ago or more. The delay is blamed on their …
Corizon Health Bankruptcy Delayed by Revelation of Attorney’s Affair With Mediator by On November 14, 2023, the federal Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas approved a new mediator to oversee the dissolution of Corizon Health successor Tehum Care Services, Inc. Retired bankruptcy judge Christopher Sontchi replaced former Judge …
Article • January 1, 2024 • from PLN January, 2024
Washington Agencies Sanctioned for Discovery Violations Reach $3.1 Million Settlement with Disabled Woman Allegedly Abused at State Sanctioned Home by “Any lawyer practicing in this State should get an uneasy feeling when a request for sanctions is made under controlling case law in Washington,” wrote a King County Superior Court …
Article • March 1, 2023 • from PLN March, 2023
Florida DA Reopens Cold Murder Case, Exonerates Wrongly Imprisoned Man, Finds Real Killers – and Gets Axed by Governor by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On August 4, 2022, nearly 40 years after the brutal 1983 murder of 19-year-old Barbara Grams in Tampa, the indictments of two men for …
Article • September 30, 2022 • from PLN October, 2022
Two Attorneys, Three Employees Sentenced in Bribery Scandal at MTC Texas Prisons by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders On June 27, 2022, the last of a trio of private prison employees — plus two immigration attorneys — who were sentenced in a bribery scandal at two Texas prisons holding federal …
Federal Judge Sanctions Former Arizona DOC Director’s Foot-Dragging Attorneys in Pro Se Prisoner’s Suit by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On January 12, 2022, a federal judge advanced a former Arizona state prisoner one step closer to collecting fees for his own pro se legal work in a suit against …
Michael John Hrnicek, AZ, Agreement for Discipline by Consent, Attorney Misconduct, 2021 FILED 8/10/21 SHunt Kelly J. Flood, Bar No. 019772 Staff Bar Counsel State Bar of Arizona 4201 N. 24 th Street, Suite 100 Phoenix, Arizona 85016-6266 Telephone (602)340-7272 Email: LRO@staff.azbar.org James J. Belanger, Bar No. 011393 JBelanger Law …
Article • October 1, 2020 • from PLN October, 2020
Fourth Circuit Holds South Carolina DOC Lawyers Entitled to Qualified Immunity by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals held that lawyers for the South Carolina Department of Corrections (SCDC) who made a legal error in interpreting new state law were entitled to qualified immunity. …
Article • September 9, 2019 • from PLN September, 2019
Florida DOC Attorney Resigns After Posting Racially-Charged Comments by David M. Reutter by David M. Reutter Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC) assistant general counsel Eric Giunta resigned after making “absolutely unacceptable” comments on Facebook about a video portraying systematic racism. The video was posted by Providence College assistant theology professor …
Article • September 9, 2019 • from PLN September, 2019
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Stormy Daniels’ Former Attorney Accused of Ripping Off Prisoner, Other Clients by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon  For those who have been residing on the moon or perhaps Mars, Michael Avenatti, 48, is a high-profile attorney who has, until recently, represented clients like Stormy Daniels, a noted porn actress who …
Article • March 6, 2019 • from PLN March, 2019
Filed under: Attorney Misconduct
New York Criminal Defense Attorney Charged with Federal Crimes by Chad Marks by Chad Marks Scott Brettschneider, 61, a criminal defense attorney from Queens, New York known by many as “Mighty Whitey,” was arrested on March 26, 2018 in connection with accusations that he falsified documents to get one of …
Article • October 12, 2018 • from PLN October, 2018
Florida Lawyer Arrested for Jail Porn Escapades by In December 2017, a Florida attorney was caught in a private visitation room at the Pinellas County jail with his pants down as he prepared to engage in a sexual act with a female pretrial detainee. According to jail officials, lawyer Andrew …
Article • October 12, 2018 • from PLN October, 2018
Two Former Oklahoma Death Row Prisoners Obtain $3.15 Million Settlement by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna Last year, Yancy L. Douglas, 43, and Paris Lapriest Powell, 44, former death row prisoners in Oklahoma, accepted a total $3.15 million settlement in their federal civil rights lawsuits brought against their prosecutor and …
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