Two California lawyers were disbarred after being caught planting drugs in the car of a woman who worked at their son’s school, Law.com reports.
Kent and Jill Easter, who were then married, were convicted of false imprisonment, disbarred, and sentenced to incarceration of 180 days and 60 days respectively.
They had plotted to frame Kelli Peters in order to get her fired from the school. Kent Easter’s DNA was found on the drugs in Peters’ car, and he and his wife were subsequently arrested.
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The California State Bar Journal wrote about the case “his disbarment—and, earlier, that of his attorney wife for the same offense—demonstrate that a felony conviction, the fact and circumstances of which involve moral turpitude, can lead to an attorney’s ouster from the profession even where unrelated to the practice of law”.
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