A former state judge who downloaded a “tremendous volume” of adult pornography on his state-issued computer will lose his law license for one year, the Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled Sept. 10 (State ex rel. Oklahoma Bar Ass’n v. Olmstead, Okla., ., No. SCBD-5843).
The lawyer, George W. Olmstead, was originally charged with 19 felony counts under Oklahoma’s obscenity statute but subsequently pleaded no contest to a single violation of the Oklahoma Computer Crimes Act, a lesser crime involving the unauthorized use of a computer or network. Olmstead then faced ethics charges, and a disciplinary panel recommended that ...
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