Posted on 01/21/2009 5:25:36 AM PST by stan_sipple
A prosecutor in Kansas has failed to block the suspension of his law license by arguing that his alleged Asperger Syndrome played a part in his decision to show sexually explicit photos of drunken teens at a party to their parents.
The Supreme Court of Kansas on Friday suspended Anderson County Attorney Frederick Campbell, 49, from practice for six months. The court concluded that he violated attorney ethics rules when he attempted to demonstrate to a group of parents the dangers of teenage drinking by presenting them with photos of teens drinking and engaging in sexual intercourse.
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Suddenly everyone seems to have Aspergers is that the boutique syndrome of the year? Sounds like this guy needs a game changing moment and yes, he can.
Yes, it is the current fad disease, taking over the lead from ADD. Which took over from Chronic Fatigue.
Just the latest scam.
You left out PTSD.
Since 100% of the population has Autism now — which helps explain poor test grades, poor behavior. A new, more exotic disease has to be used to explain adult failings — Aspergers.
The problem is that the norm today is two parents working with little oversight of their children. To help assuage their guilt, it used to be ADHD, then Autism, now Aspergers to explain away the anti-social behaviour. Don’t get me wrong, there are authentic cases of the above, but not in the numbers reported today.
Oh crap, I just got Aspergers.
He should have thought of that before entering his profession, at least in litigating.
Upon reading the newspaper article, C.H.'s mother contacted Campbell and told him that she would not give her permission to show the photos. In response, Campbell told her that he did not need her permission. According to the decision, Campbell sent letters to 12 parents inviting them to see the photographs. Five parents viewed them.
That was just so wrong.
There are many, many, many other abuses by lawyers that should be addressed too, though.
Finally, I'm also surprised that nobody has speculated on the nationality of the exchange student who was accused of the sexual assaults.
I called out today with a case of "24 hour AIDS". You don't suppose my boss will figger out that's a made up malady, do you?
Owl_Eagle
“When the stock market crashed,
Franklin Roosevelt got on the television
and didn’t just talk about
the princes of greed, he said,
‘Look, here’s what happened.’"
-Slow Joe Biden
Hey, schools have shown kids movies of people with their brains splattered all over the road as a result of drunk driving.
I wonder if the parents that saw the photos will have disciplined their kids that were photographed? I am guerssing they will rather sue the lawyer with Asperger Syndrome instead and teach their kids litigation is the best way to get ahead in life...
After reading the article, I agree that the prosecutor acted inappropriately. However, I don’t see what the mother’s objection was to a few adults seeing the pictures, when everyone the person who took them knows has seen them, and everyone those people know has seen them, and so on.
The subject, Miss C.H., should have them blown up to poster size and put on the wall, to remind her not to be such an idiot in the future.
Words fail.
I'm not sure why anyone would, but I think you just did.
Why??? He showed the parents what their kids were doing and why they were facing prosecution or at least involved in a case he was prosecuting.
I don’t want to see pictures of my children doing such things, but on the same token, I am not going to be mad at the person that showed them to me, I’m going to be mad at my children for doing them.
It seems that the knee-jerk that used to be so common around here might be getting dull.
“After reading the article, I agree that the prosecutor acted inappropriately.”
Initially, he showed courage in declining to prosecute, based on the evidence of consent. Many prosecutors wouldn’t take that chance at the lash-back they might receive in the media, and would rubber-stamp a prosecution they understood to be without merit. The Duke rape charges come to mind.
But then he crossed the line by taking on ‘public service’ act (educating the other parents) using, extra-judiciously, evidence collected by the investigation, and revealing it over the objections of the subject’s parents.
If, by doing that, he was trying to assure the other parents that his decision not to prosecute the exchange student was justified, then one can understand his motivation. But — he also understood he needed the consent of the girl (or her parents’ consent) in the photo, and the parents withheld consent, and he went forward anyway.
Excellent points.
Interesting projection.
Same here. What is wrong with this world? Didn’t read the article but how is it the prosecutors got pictures?
“how is it the prosecutors got pictures?”
Those kids love their cell phones.
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