Attorney Suspended for Threat to Expose Intimate Photos in Court

A lawyer in Indiana was suspended for 90 days by the state’s high court for allegedly using a deposition to threaten to make public the intimate photos of a woman who was seeking a protective order against his client.

Allen R. Stout was accused of behaving inappropriately in a deposition and hearing towards the wife of a man he represented in a marital dissolution case. He was separately accused of using a deposition to threaten to expose intimate photos of a woman who was seeking a protective order to prevent alleged harassment by another of Stout’s clients.

As to Stout’s ...