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Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Ind. Courts - "Albion lawyer suspended following 2007 jailhouse ruse"

Jeff Wiehe reports today in the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette:

An Albion-based attorney will have her law license suspended for at least one year because she tried to sneak a woman into a local jail to see her boyfriend, according to the Indiana Supreme Court.

Anna E. Fulkerson, 41, will begin her suspension Oct. 13 and will have to petition the Supreme Court to be reinstated. She could not be reached for comment late Monday afternoon.

In 2007, she tried to pass off one of her clients as her own private investigator – even using her own investigator’s name for the woman. From there, she was accused of sneaking the woman into a secure area of the Noble County Jail. The woman was caught and Fulkerson was charged with a felony count of aiding in identity deception.

She eventually pleaded to resisting arrest, a misdemeanor, as part of a plea agreement but apparently did not provide enough remorse for the satisfaction of the Supreme Court.

“In her memorandum addressing her misconduct, Respondent does not acknowledge that she lied about Former Client’s identity and attempted to get her into a secure area of the jail,” reads the Supreme Court’s decision to suspend Fulkerson. “Rather, she minimizes her misconduct, stating that she was accused of attempting to help Former Client visit the inmate in the visitor’s area.”

Here is the Court's Sept. 4th Order: In the Matter of Anna E. FULKERSON.

Posted by Marcia Oddi on September 15, 2009 12:58 PM
Posted to Indiana Courts