Fascinating questions of legal ethics stem from the prosecution of two lawyers accused of stealing cash and property from a murder victim's estate by accepting $75,000 from their client, the victim's wife, who pleaded guilty to planning the killing. But arguments at a Georgia appeals court last week centered more on the statute of limitations than on the source of the lawyers' fees and their obligations related to their client's guilt.
July 15, 2009 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
Fascinating questions of legal ethics stem from the prosecution of two Carrollton, Ga., lawyers accused of stealing cash and property from a murder victim’s estate by accepting $75,000 from their client, the victim’s wife who pleaded guilty to planning the killing.
But arguments in the case last week at the Court of Appeals of Georgia centered less on what obligation the lawyers had in knowing the guilt of their client and the source of their fees than on the statute of limitations.
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