Lawyer who pooped in Pringles can and left it for victim advocates gets reinstated

An attorney who was suspended after pooping in a Pringles can and throwing it in a parking lot is back.

Jack Blakeslee, a criminal defense lawyer from Nobel County was captured on surveillance video leaving the potato chip can with human feces in the car park of a crime victim advocacy center in November 2021.

The Ohio Supreme Court in November 2023 suspended Blakeslee for a year, with six months stayed, as justices in a divided opinion found that he engaged in conduct adversely reflecting his fitness to practice law, according to Court News Ohio.

Blakeslee ‘chose the Haven of Hope parking lot as his drop zone’ for the thrill of pranking victim advocates he knew for years and would probably see in court just 15 minutes after leaving the Pringles can, justices said.

The court determined that it was necessary to sanction Blakeslee to protect the public.

‘However, the evidence in this case shows that despite societal standards of cleanliness and decorum, Blakeslee failed to control his own bizarre impulses to place feces-filled cans out in public for unsuspecting people to find,’ stated the court in November.

‘His aberrant conduct has adversely reflected on his own fitness to practice law and brought discredit to the profession through significant media attention.’

Blakeslee, who became a lawyer in 1976, said he did not target anyone specifically and had pulled the same prank at least 10 times that year, The Columbus Dispatch reported.

He was representing a defendant in a capital murder case at the time of the weird incident.

The court announced on Tuesday that Blakeslee fulfilled his discipline conditions and did not commit any further misconduct.

His law license has been reinstated.

Blakeslee has no other disciplinary incident on his record.

His license was reinstated just weeks after an acting state supreme court judge in Buffalo, New York, learned that he would not be reappointed to the bench after police body cameras recorded him shoving a cop in a brawl over a parking spot.

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