Comments on: Lawyer’s Briefs Yield Contraband: Chicago Lawyer Arrested for Smuggling Drugs to Inmates

By: Criminal Defense Attorney Arrested in Minnesota Courthouse for Drug Possession « JONATHAN TURLEY

Sun, 18 Jan 2009 12:30:12 +0000

[...] in difficulties with the law over drugs. Around the same time that a Chicago lawyer was having his briefs searched at a prison, a Minnesota was having his briefcase searched in a courthouse. They found drugs in [...]

By: seamus

seamus — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 19:28:02 +0000

Man-o-man. I don’t personally know him, but I’ve seen Mr. Compton around the various court houses here in Cook County. The guy always looked sort of broken down to begin with. If the allegations are true it was seriously stupid, criminal, and sort of pathetic. My opinion is the guy was indeed that desperate for the chump change.

By: rafflaw

rafflaw — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 15:37:16 +0000

This is one interesting lawyer. I can’t imagine taking the risk of using your freedom and your law license for $250.00. Maybe this is one way of cleaning up the Bar and removing one seriously dirty attorney.

By: Supreme Court Takes Case of Girl Who Was Strip-Searched to Find Ibuprofen « JONATHAN TURLEY

Sat, 17 Jan 2009 12:52:20 +0000

[...] Redding was pulled from class by a male vice principal, Kerry Wilson, who led the interrogation and had a nurse and his assistant strip her and search her. No drug were found in her underwear or bra (despite the fact that underwear searches have proven successful with lawyers recently). [...]