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Friday, September 11, 2009
Courts - "Blogging Assistant PD Accused of Revealing Secrets of Little-Disguised Clients"
Debra Cassens Weiss of the ABA Journal has this interesting story that begins:
A former Illinois assistant public defender’s blog musings about her difficult clients and clueless judges has landed her in trouble with disciplinary officials.Kristine Ann Peshek has been accused of revealing client confidences, allegedly for describing her clients in a way that made it possible to identify them. Peshek referred to her clients by either their first names, a derivative of their first names, or by their jail identification numbers, according to the disciplinary complaint filed on Aug. 25. The Legal Profession Blog noted the accusations.
Peshek counters that she would never have posted information that she believed would lead to identification of a client, absent the client's permission or unless the information is a matter of public record. She tells the ABA Journal she is in the process of hiring a lawyer.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on September 11, 2009 09:22 AM
Posted to Courts in general