Lawyer Suspended for Plotting to Help Woman Avoid Testifying

An Ohio lawyer found to have taken cash as part of a plan to help a woman leave town so she wouldn’t have to testify against one of his clients was indefinitely suspended by the state’s highest court.

Jared Lee Wilson “committed a felony with the intent to thwart or hamper the prosecution of a felony domestic-violence case and committed a series of ethical violations involving six other clients—some of which predated his criminal conduct,” the Ohio Supreme Court said.

Wilson pleaded guilty to telecommunications fraud in 2017 and was sentenced to a year of community control, according to the ...