Another Connecticut attorney has gone to jail after pleading guilty to a crime and had his license suspended for a long time. One of the purposes of criminal prosecution is general deterrence; some of us aren’t learning the lesson.

The lawyer I write of, Bradford Barneys, as reported of in the Tribune a few days ago, got 30 months for his involvement in a mortgage fraud scheme. Judge Antonio Robaina took his license away for six years. That didn’t come as a surprise to me. I recently had a lawyer-client who lost his license for seven years when Judge Robaina, unimpressed with his claims that he didn’t know his nonlawyer partner in a mortgage originating company had gone beyond “creative” and into criminal stretching of the truth, wrote a strong opinion chastising him for blaming others for his own sins.