June 19th 2024.
A lawyer found himself in hot water after he pulled a bizarre prank at a crime victim advocacy center in Ohio. Jack Blakeslee, a criminal defense attorney, was caught on surveillance video leaving a Pringles can filled with human feces in the center's parking lot in November of 2021. As a result, his law license was suspended by the Ohio Supreme Court in November of 2023, with six months of the suspension stayed.
According to Court News Ohio, the court deemed Blakeslee's behavior as "adversely reflecting his fitness to practice law." They stated that he purposely chose the Haven of Hope parking lot for his "drop zone," knowing that he would see the victim advocates he had known for years just 15 minutes after leaving the can. The court also noted that Blakeslee had pulled this prank at least 10 times that year.
The decision to suspend Blakeslee's law license was made in order to protect the public. The court stated that despite societal standards of cleanliness and decorum, Blakeslee failed to control his own strange impulses to leave feces-filled cans in public places for unsuspecting people to find. This bizarre behavior not only reflected poorly on his own fitness to practice law, but it also brought discredit to the legal profession due to the significant media attention it received.
Blakeslee, who has been a lawyer since 1976, claimed that he did not target anyone specifically and had pulled the same prank at least 10 times that year. However, he was caught on CCTV throwing the Pringles can in the parking lot while representing a defendant in a capital murder case. Despite this incident, the court announced on Tuesday that Blakeslee had fulfilled his disciplinary conditions and had not committed any further misconduct. As a result, his law license has been reinstated.
Interestingly, this news comes just weeks after an acting state supreme court judge in Buffalo, New York, was not reappointed to the bench after being recorded on police body cameras shoving a cop in a brawl over a parking spot. It seems that both incidents had something to do with parking lots, but Blakeslee's behavior was much more bizarre and unprofessional.
So, what led Blakeslee to leave a Pringles can filled with feces in a parking lot? According to him, it was simply a prank that he found amusing. However, the court's decision to suspend his law license and the media attention that followed have hopefully taught him to think twice before acting on such bizarre impulses in the future. As always, stay tuned for more updates from Metro – the ultimate source of breaking news and juicy stories. And don't forget to join our community on WhatsApp for the latest updates!
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