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Criminal

Nov. 15, 2013

Taking the stand, lawyer denies planting drugs on school volunteer

Testifying in his own defense, Orange County lawyer Kent W. Easter denied planting drugs in a school volunteer's car but said he called police because his wife insisted.


By Don J. DeBenedictis


Daily Journal Staff Writer


SANTA ANA - Taking the stand in his own defense Wednesday, an Orange County lawyer denied he had planted drugs in the car of an elementary school volunteer his wife had gotten into a fight with a year earlier.


"Absolutely not," Kent W. Easter said when asked if he had ever even planned to place drugs in the school aide's car. People v. Easter, 12ZF0153 (Orange Super. Ct., f...

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