Legal professional Faces Ethics Grievance For Pooping In Pringles Can, Flinging It Into Sufferers Advocacy Heart Parking Lot

Now that’s a headline you don’t see on a daily basis.

Jack Allen Blakeslee, an Ohio attorney, stands accused of “deposit[ing] his feces” into an empty Pringles can and chucking it into the parking zone of a sufferers advocacy middle ahead of warding off to court docket. The ABA Magazine (gavel bang to the Criminal Occupation Weblog) has the poop — err… scoop:

Blakeslee allegedly threw the exposed, poop-filled Pringles can into the parking zone of the Haven of Hope sufferers advocacy middle in Cambridge, Ohio, in November 2021, in keeping with the ethics criticism filed Tuesday. …

The chief director of the middle, Michelle Wilkinson-Chippie, noticed Blakeslee throw the can from his car into the parking zone, in keeping with the ethics criticism. The can landed on the subject of her automobile.

Blakeslee then sped off and drove to the Guernsey County not unusual pleas courthouse to wait a pretrial listening to for a homicide defendant he was once representing. Wilkinson-Chippie was once the sufferer recommend within the case.

It kind of feels that Blakeslee is a serial Pringles pooper. As famous within the ethics criticism, he has finished this about 10 occasions prior to now, “indiscriminately opting for the positioning the place he throws the chip cans containing his feces.” Yick.

Blakeslee paid a effective and court docket prices after pleading accountable to disorderly habits and littering within the wake of his poop slinging, however his health to observe legislation is now being referred to as into query through the Ohio Very best Courtroom’s Board of Skilled Habits over his crappy conduct. Very best of good fortune to him as he tries to flush this ethics case down the bathroom.

It Certain Doesn’t Style Like Potato Chips [Legal Profession Blog]
Ohio attorney is accused of tossing poop-filled Pringles can into parking zone of sufferers advocacy middle [ABA Journal]

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