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Former Asst. PD convicted of sex with client as "official misconduct"

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

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A former Assistant Public Defender was convicted of a misdemeanor offense of official misconduct for allegedly stating that he would work harder on his client's case if she had sex with him. See TimesUnion.com's Lawyer guilty of sex with client. His lawyer objected to a tape as evidence because it was of poor quality. She tape recorded conversations with the lawyer, along with at least an alleged sex act: The case against him goes back two years when he was assigned to represent Latoya Gorton on drug charges following an April 2007 raid on the Albany home Gorton shared with a boyfriend. Gorton testified when the attorney-client relationship started Swedick essentially told her he would work harder, prioritize her case and treat her as a private-paying client if she engaged in sex with him...continue to full post

Full post as published by Law Of Criminal Defense on September 24, 2009 (boomark / email).

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