Public Masturbation Gets Attorney’s N.Y. License Suspended

A New Jersey attorney who’s also barred in New York can’t practice law for two years after four arrests for public masturbation.

Todd Clifford Sicklinger’s license was suspended because his conduct violates professional conduct rules in both states, according to a Nov. 8 New York appellate court order. New Jersey twice suspended Sicklinger’s license, most recently in May 2017.

Sicklinger’s conduct—excessive public masturbation, including arrests for lewdness under New Jersey law—violates New York’s professional conduct rule 8.4(d), which prohibits attorneys from engaging in conduct “prejudicial to the administration of justice.”

Sexually-based misconduct like Sicklinger’s calls for a “significant sanction” ...