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L.A. lawyer arrested for intimidating witness in DUI case

By Jason Siegel

Los Angeles attorney Daniel Willsey, accused of killing a Kern County Sheriff's deputy in a car accident,   was arrested on Friday for for intimidating a witness in the case, KGET reports (WATCH Eyewitness News Report).

Willsey, 46, will go to court next month on charges with gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated, driving under the influence and possession of a controlled substance, among others in in the death of Deputy Joe Hudnall in November 2006.

The sister of the witness called 17 News, claiming Willsey was hiding near her home, threatening her and her brother.

The state bar lists a Daniel Willsey of Pasadena with the following discipline summary:

DANIEL PATRICK WILLSEY [#143772], 39, of Pasadena was suspended for nine months, stayed, placed on two years of probation and was ordered to take the MPRE within one year. The order took effect Sept. 24, 1999.

Willsey stipulated that he failed to comply with the conditions of a 1997 private reproval. He did not submit three quarterly probation reports or proof of attendance at Alcoholics Anonymous meetings.

Willsey also was privately reproved in 1998.

In mitigation, he cooperated with the bar?s investigation.

Full post as published by Legal Pad | LA on February 18, 2008 (boomark / email).