An lawyer in Erie, Pennsylvania could also be suspended from practising legislation for being excessive on cocaine throughout a consumer’s court docket listening to. The lawyer, Nathaniel Strasser, admitted to be on blow in court docket and apparently claimed in a disciplinary listening to that the drug improves his efficiency on the job.
In response to a quick filed by the state’s Workplace of Disciplinary Counsel that investigates lawyer misconduct, Strasser’s “refusal to precise regret for showing at a listening to on a consumer’s behalf whereas beneath the affect of cocaine — and his suggestion all through the disciplinary listening to on this matter that cocaine enhances his efficiency as an lawyer — presents an unacceptable danger that Respondent (Strasser) will repeat this insupportable misconduct.”
A police officer at Strasser’s consumer’s listening to seen that Strasser was exhibiting “very hyperactive, fidgety” conduct and had dilated pupils, so he reported him.
The disciplinary counsel is looking for a minimal one-year suspension. Subsequent step is for the panel holding the listening to to make a disciplinary advice to the Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Courtroom of Pennsylvania.
From Go Erie:
The panel stated Strasser represented a consumer regardless of being mentally or bodily unable to take action, and stated he had dedicated a prison act “that displays adversely on the lawyer’s honesty, trustworthiness or health as a lawyer in different respects.”
The court docket listening to at which Strasser was excessive occurred on Nov. 2, 2022. It was a preliminary listening to within the courtroom of District Decide Lisa Ferrick in Harborcreek Township.
Strasser was working as a part-time assistant public defender for Erie County and was representing a girl who was charged with driving beneath the affect of a managed substance, in accordance with data filed in Strasser’s disciplinary case. Strasser additionally has his personal legislation workplace.
