Thread: Lawyer on the rise...struck down by trying to get out of DWI...

http://www.buffalonews.com/home/story/649818.html

This story is juicy. Classic case of trying to get your friends in higher places to get you out of a mess...and then getting caught. Then your friends have to punish you for it.

What was she thinking? Is this an "above the law" type attitude?

Ex-lawyer Adams jailed briefly in DWI coverup
Head bowed in disgrace, Adams faces rare penalty in unusual case


Anne E. Adams emerged as a shamed figure in a basement courtroom downtown Thursday morning.

The former prosecutor and later defense attorney stood tall at her own sentencing, but with her head bowed for virtually the entire 23 minutes, choosing to speak only in monosyllables.

Then she was led away in handcuffs to spend 15 days in the county jail, her punishment for trying to cover up her drunken-driving arrest last September.

But Adams’ unusual case took another strange twist Thursday afternoon, when a senior state appellate judge granted her a stay of sentencing, giving her attorney 120 days to appeal the sentence.

She left the back entrance of the Erie County Holding Center shortly before 4 p. m., joined by three friends and relatives who tried to shield her from being photographed.


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Yo emo...I'd love to hear what lawyers are saying about this particular case.