Far be it for a lawyer to tamper with evidence, let alone plant it. But that is allegedly the case with Kent Wycliffe Easter, 38, and his wife Jill Bjorkholm Easter, 38, who were arrested Tuesday on charges with conspiracy to procure the false arrest of the elementary-school parent volunteer who they thought was doing a bad job watching their boy.
This all went down in 2011, when on Feb. 16, Kent drove to the volunteer’s house and planted in her unlocked car a bag of Vicodin, Percocet, marijuana, and a marijuana pipe behind her driver’s seat. After the woman, Kelli Peters, went to school to do her duty, Kent made a phone call with fake name and number to report his concern for a woman’s erratic driving and the drugs he had spotted in her back seat.
Police arrived on the scene and confirmed the presence of drugs, arresting Peters, but after investigation, locating her as teaching at the time of the phone call, and finding her house, after she submitted to a search, free of drugs.
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Further investigation located Easter’s call as coming from a business center of a Newport Beach hotel, and video cameras confirmed it was him. Further investigation shows he and his wife texted throughout the entire operation and that she was complicit.
Kent Easter graduated from UCLA Law in 1998 and is a former partner at Wilson Sonsini, working lately as a securities litigation partner at Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth. His wife graduated in 1998 from Boalt Hall, but her bar membership has not been renewed. She did work for a time at Easter & DeLeon L.L.P., and like her husband served as an associate at Wilson Sonsini.
If convicted, the two could face up to three years in prison. They are schedule for a July 1 arraignment at the Central Justice Center of Santa Ana.
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Ace Ventura
June 22, 2012 at 1:41 am
What a couple of dirtbags: UCLA, Berkeley & Stanford education backgrounds.
A couple of credits shy of a full curriculum.
Throw the keys away. Poor kid.
Paris
June 22, 2012 at 8:26 am
This is almost as bad as planting fake WMD evidence on a nation and killing a million people because of the false claim!
FtNolan
June 22, 2012 at 9:47 am
99% of attorneys give the other 1% a bad name. It only takes 1% of attorneys to give the other 99% a bad reputation. I can recall one other UCLA law graduate who abused his standing as an officer of the court with slandering an upright individual. It is my hope these clowns — the Easters — get disbarred and that other feckless attorneys get what’s coming to them.
How did Shakespeare put it? ‘First, we kill all the lawyers.’
MR TEACHER
June 22, 2012 at 10:17 am
What scumbags they deserve the max sentences, also to be disbarred and never practice again.
People who make tons of dirty money anyhow and doing this, I wonder what else they have done and gotten away with.
what a great rep they have put on “educated” people, hope they fry poor kid mommy and daddy are lowlife upper class A$$hole$
JP
June 22, 2012 at 12:27 pm
hah hah hah hah hah hah hah hah hah hah hah hah hah hah hah hah hah hah hah hah hah hah hah hah hah hah hah hah hah hah hah hah hah hah hah hah hah hah hah hah hah hah hah hah hah hah hah hah hah hah hah hah hah hah hah hah hah hah hah hah
Onegaishimasu
June 22, 2012 at 3:56 pm
Rot at the core spreads outward…. (Frank Herbert, author of the Dune novels)