Beecher
[District Attorney] – A Sherman Oaks attorney who pleaded to smuggling $30,000 worth of heroin inside a greeting card to a client in the North County Correctional Facility in Castaic in 2012 was sentenced Wednesday to two years in custody, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office announced.
Stephen Beecher, 63, was sentenced by Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Craig Veals in BA409719. The Sherman Oaks resident was taken into custody to begin serving his sentence. He pleaded no contest in December to one felony count of bringing drugs into jail.
Deputy District Attorney Arisa Mattson with the Justice System Integrity Division is prosecuting the case.
Beecher’s co-defendant, Jesus Antonio Duenas, returns to Department 100 on Feb. 26 to begin trial. Beecher, who was representing Duenas at the time, admitted slipping packages of heroin to Duenas who was incarcerated in county jail on Dec. 28, 2012.
The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department investigated the case.
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Idiot
I will second that…… idiot
$30,000 of heroin in a greeting card?
I can’t even begin to imagine where you could hide 30,000 worth of heroin in a folded piece of paper
This article only tells part of the story. True, he tried to smuggle the drugs into a jail, but there’s a history of misappropriating client funds that is in his past. His trail of victims is rather large.
We have a strange licensing system for lawyers in this state. People can go to law school, take a test, and suddenly they become licensed thieves. It’s like the state sanctions it all and when time comes to bring wrongdoing to their attention, the State Bar rarely acts to protect the public. Why?
Would it surprise anyone to know that as of this morning (02/21/2015) he is still showing as active on the State Bar website? The man is in jail for a felony, and the Bar says he can still practice law! How can this possibly be true?