The Legal Profession blawg reports, this morning, on the a Twin-Cities based lawyer's Charles Ramsey's (pic) earned a 90-day suspension for Cocaine possession following his arrest in January 2009.
Ramsey was defending a murder suspect in a high profile cold case prosecution when the police investigator and lab tech noticed cocaine residue and Ramsey wandering around sniffing like he might have been tooting. Upon this suspicion other police took the CDL into custody and a search turned up 5 grams of cocaine. The criminal trial came to a screeching halt, Ramsey went to jail, and has according to the disciplinary case, successfully entered recovery for his cocaine addiction.
The client, accused murderer, Jack Nissalke, was convicted following a retrial 6 months later, now represented by different counsel.
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