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Lawyer Disciplined Over Blog Posts

By Robert J. Ambrogi

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A California lawyer has been suspended from law practice, in part over comments about a trial he posted to his blog. But the blog comments in this case came about in an unusual way. The lawyer was a juror in a felony trial and had not disclosed that he was an attorney. For this, lawyer Frank Russell Wilson of San Diego was suspended for 18 months, with the suspension stayed, placed on two years of probation with a 45-day actual suspension, and ordered to take the MPRE within one year, the California Bar Journal reports. Wilson had closed his law practice prior to the start of the trial and was employed by a wireless communication technology firm. He was empaneled on a jury in the trial of a man charged with five counts of felony burglary. During voir dire, he never disclosed that he was an attorney. After the judge admonished jurors not to discuss the case verbally or in writing, Wilson posted an entry on his blog about the case. He identified the judge by name and described her as "a stern attentive woman with thin red hair and long, spidery fingers that as a grandkid you probably wouldn't...

Full post as published by Legal Blog Watch on August 04, 2009 (boomark / email).