Here's a story you might want to sit down for — hopefully nowhere near a Pringles can.
An attorney in Ohio had his license reinstated after a six-month hiatus for — I'm not kidding — pooping in a Pringles can and throwing it into a parking lot.
Turns out, once you pop, you really can't stop!
Jack Blakeslee, presumably the #2 criminal defense attorney in Ohio, thought it would be a good idea to prank a crime-victim advocacy center by pooping in a Pringles can and leaving it in their parking lot.
The Ohio Supreme Court got wind of this — hopefully not literally — and imposed a six-month sanction last November.
Jack Allen Blakeslee, of Caldwell, Ohio … was admitted to the practice of law in Ohio in 1976. In a November 2022 complaint, relator, disciplinary counsel, charged Blakeslee with professional misconduct for throwing a feces-filled Pringles can into the parking lot of a victim-advocacy center involved in a capital-murder case in which Blakeslee was representing the defendant. Blakeslee waived a probable-cause determination and, in his answer, admitted many of relator's factual allegations and the single alleged rule violation. The parties also submitted joint stipulations of fact, misconduct, and aggravating and mitigating factors.
After conducting a hearing, a panel of the Board of Professional Conduct issued a report finding by clear and convincing evidence that Blakeslee had committed the charged misconduct and recommending that we publicly reprimand him for that misconduct. The board adopted the panel's findings and recommendation. For the reasons that follow, we adopt the board's finding of misconduct but suspend Blakeslee from the practice of law for one year with six months stayed on the condition that he engage in no further misconduct.
Here's the kicker: Jack didn't just do it once.
He admitted to pulling this prank at least ten times that year!
Yes, TEN TIMES he pulled the poop-in-the-Pringles-can prank.
And now, somehow, he's got his license back.
So, if you're ever in Noble County and you see a can of Pringles, I would leave it alone. It might be more full of it than your typical lawyer …
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