Attorney sentenced to jail in drug-framing scheme

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Attorney sentenced to jail in drug-framing scheme
| October 17, 2014 | Updated: October 17, 2014 6:42pm

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — An attorney was sentenced Friday to six months in jail after authorities said he tried to frame a school volunteer by planting pot and painkillers in her car because she slighted his 6-year-old young son.

Kent Easter, 40, was sentenced by Orange County Superior Court Judge Thomas Goethals after he was convicted by a jury last month of one felony count of false imprisonment by deceit.

Along with jail time, he was given three years of probation and required to perform 100 hours of community service. He also was ordered to stay away from victim Kelli Peters and her family.

His wife Jill, 41, pleaded guilty last year to false imprisonment in the scheme and was sentenced to four months in jail and 10 hours of community service. Her law license has since expired, according to the Orange County district attorney's office.


Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/Attorney-sentenced-to-jail-for-drug-framing-scheme-5830194.php

[Joanie Baloney]

1. My, my!

And the lessons their kids learned from this?? Don't grow up to be be douchebags like your parents!

Sheesh!

-JB

[jtuck004]

2. There are people out there whose goal is to hurt you, no matter what.

She didn't bring the kid to the door when they thought she should have, and she said he was "slow". They took that as a slight and proceeded to...

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Over the next few months, the couple filed a lawsuit against Peters and the school, and sought a restraining order against Peters and asked that she be fired.

Duff said the couple later planted marijuana, a pipe, Vicodin and Percocet in her PT Cruiser. The defendants then called Irvine police and reported seeing Peters driving erratically and that she had drugs, he said.

Officers found drugs in her car and detained her. The Easters' DNA, however, came back on the drugs and Ken Easter's cellphone was found to have pinged next to the Peters' house early that morning when prosecutors believe the drugs were planted, Duff said.

"It was a small incident that appears to have grown and grown and grown, we still don't know what was so bad," Duff said. "They went after this woman who was the best volunteer the school had."
"

What are the odds of two psychopaths finding true love together, and then setting out in life to accomplish such lofty goals?

[Celebration]

4. They always do!

I used to keep asking myself--how do sickos find each other like this? I shake my head, but it happens every time! I do have to say our divorce rate is pretty high, so sometimes one of them wises up after being married for awhile.

[malletgirl02]

12. A match made in Hell NT.

[sendero]

3. 4 and 6 months?

Should have been 4 and 6 years.

[Celebration]

5. and with no parole!!

What would have happened if they had been much less clumsy and the woman had actually been charged? I hope she wins a civil suit that has them paying for the rest of their lives. I hope a judgment can't be bankrupted.

[sendero]

6. My basic thinking on a frame up..

.... is that a framer should serve the same sentence the framee would have served had the frame up not been discovered.

I guess I don't know what a typical sentence for the amounts of pot and pills planted would have been.

[Mnemosyne]

8. I won a judgement in PA and they filed bankcruptcy, not sure all states allow this though. nt

[Hassin Bin Sober]

14. Was yours for criminal action?

Sometimes deliberate criminal actions and the resultant judgments are not dischargeable in bankruptcy.

[Mnemosyne]

16. It was civil, but I could/should have filed legal charges. nt

[malletgirl02]

11. I agree

If the police hadn't found out the truth this would have ruin the school volunteer's life.

[Baitball Blogger]

7. Will the attorney get disbarred for this?

[malletgirl02]

13. He better be.

It looks like his wife was also in the frameup, both need to be disbarred.

[AndreaCG]

9. Not nearly enough time for a felony

It is scary to think how depraved people can ruin someone's life by framing them for a crime. It happens in cyberspace too.

[silvershadow]

10. That attorney should be disbarred for life. nt

[madokie]

15. People in a position where they are taking advantage of the trust

of that position should be sentenced to the maximum of whatever the law will allow for the offense they're guilty of. No if and or buts about that either.