Criminal
Nov. 8, 2013
Defense says lawyer was duped by wife in revenge scheme
A prosecutor told jurors a former Stradling Yocca partner planted drugs on a school volunteer and then called the police. But Kent Easter's defense blamed almost everything on the lawyer's wife.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
SANTA ANA - A lawyer planted drugs in the car of a school volunteer who had angered his wife, then used a fake name to report the woman to police, a prosecutor told an Orange County jury Wednesday morning.
But Kent Wycliffe Easter's defense attorney countered that his client was a dupe, tricked and browbeaten by his lying wife, who actually planted the drugs.
"What Kent was w...
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