Lawyer drops his coke in courtroom
 

Lawyer making trip to court charged with drug possession
By DALE LEZON
Copyright 2003 Houston Chronicle
Houston lawyer Stanley Duane Wilkinson went into court last week to represent a defendant.

But he became a defendant himself.

Wilkinson, 53, is charged with possession of a controlled substance, a state felony.

It all started when Wilkinson approached state District Judge Mark Ellis to handle his client's guilty plea Sept. 22, according to a criminal complaint. The bailiff said he watched the lawyer pull some papers from his jacket pocket and then saw a small plastic bag fall out onto the floor.

"I think you dropped this," bailiff P. Halfin told Wilkinson.

Wilkinson said the bag wasn't his and that he didn't drop it.

Ellis told Halfin that he had seen something fall from Wilkinson's pocket at the same time the bag was found, the complaint says. The white powdery residue in the bag tested positive as cocaine, according to the complaint.

The residue was less than a gram.

Wilkinson, a member of the Houston Bar Association and a 1985 graduate of South Texas College of Law, could not be reached Monday. He was free on $2,000 bail.

Ellis' court staff said the judge will recuse himself from the case.


what a retard :1orglaugh

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hehehehe

bet he's gonna have fun in texas jail system!

some funny shit man! :1orglaugh

Or, he could have been setup.

Never rule out the set up.

That would be a dumb move if it was his and he dropped it, but POSSIBLE

hahaha still funny

The dumb fuck should told the judge it was evidence for a client he was representing :Graucho

keep it in the wallet

LOL, seriously, that is a nice setup and very easy to pull off. Just slip something into the guy's pocket and hope he pulls something out. He is either one careless m0f0 or maybe he did get framed? :Graucho

Should have stored it in his nose!

Isn't a felony grounds for disbarment?

Why the fuck would a lawyer bring his own Coke to court, leave it in the car for sake! Fucking stupid ass lawyer's!

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