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Not Your Average Legal Secretary

We commend secretaries who don't just cover the phones, but show some initiative and entrepreneurial spirit. From the Chicago Tribune:

A receptionist for the Cook County public defender's office accepted delivery of almost 40 pounds of marijuana at her Loop office, prosecutors alleged Wednesday.

At her bond hearing Wednesday, prosecutors said Lamour Holloway, 40, accompanied by two children, carted the drugs to her husband as he waited in a car behind the Cook County Administration Building at 69 W. Washington St....

"I think it's clear that not only is she committing a crime by accepting a package containing cannabis using the mail service, but as a public employee there is a sense of trust," said Assistant State's Atty Anna Demacopoulos. "She is an employee of the public defender's office, working in a public building, and she violated the sanctity of that public building."

Oh please. It's not like she worked in the prosecutor's office; she worked for the PD. If she wants to walk a mile in the shoes of a criminal defendant, like the ones her office represents, what's wrong with that?

Bail set at $80,000 in drug arrest at county building [Chicago Tribune]

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Posted by TBNM | Permalink Thursday, November 29, 2007 6:00 PM

TBNM IS FIRST

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Posted by guest | Permalink Thursday, November 29, 2007 6:00 PM

First Bitches!

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Posted by Teddy Bear Named Mohammed | Permalink Thursday, November 29, 2007 6:02 PM

Teddy Bear Named Mohammed is very pleased with First.

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Posted by guest | Permalink Thursday, November 29, 2007 6:15 PM

4th!!! Don't be jealous...

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Posted by EEO-Chi | Permalink Thursday, November 29, 2007 6:22 PM

The "sanctity of that public building"? This is Cook County we're talking about, right?

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Posted by guest | Permalink Thursday, November 29, 2007 6:42 PM

You know that couldn't have been the most obvious violation of the public trust that occurred at that location that day.

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Posted by guest | Permalink Thursday, November 29, 2007 6:52 PM

AWESOME

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Posted by Hof1L | Permalink Thursday, November 29, 2007 6:53 PM

I go to a good school (Hofstra) so i'm pretty much set with marijuana ;)

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Posted by iNonymous | Permalink Thursday, November 29, 2007 7:16 PM

The more prestigious spelling is "marihuana." See, e.g. Leary v. U.S., 395 U.S. 6 (1969).

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Posted by guest | Permalink Thursday, November 29, 2007 7:30 PM

The Cook County Administration Building has all the "sanctity" of an outhouse. Seriously.

I guess the Public Defender is gonna be conflicted out of this one, eh?

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Posted by guest | Permalink Thursday, November 29, 2007 7:40 PM

6:22 - Having worked at that building as an officer of the court, I can confirm there is nothing sanctified about it. Good for some serious people watching tough.

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Posted by cheech | Permalink Thursday, November 29, 2007 7:54 PM

whatever, make the state give it back...thats a lot of weed.

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Posted by guest | Permalink Thursday, November 29, 2007 8:35 PM

wow - weed all over the ATL boards today. that's good, everyone on here needs to just chill a little bit

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Posted by Arnie | Permalink Thursday, November 29, 2007 8:36 PM

In my state the police would have to return it to her. Also, I need a good secretary, so if anyone's got this broad's number...

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Posted by guest | Permalink Thursday, November 29, 2007 9:50 PM

'Lamour Holloway' says it all.

(As if that is his/her real name.)

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Posted by guest | Permalink Thursday, November 29, 2007 9:58 PM

That's what I was getting my secretary for a bonus. Damn, gotta think now.

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Posted by zomg shirt tale | Permalink Thursday, November 29, 2007 10:25 PM

She obviously isn't a shirt tale. A shirt tale is cute, cuddly and very stealthy, and would use her magic shirt to make the pot disappear when necessary.

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Posted by guest | Permalink Thursday, November 29, 2007 10:53 PM

who narc-ed on her? what crap.

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Posted by guest | Permalink Thursday, November 29, 2007 10:56 PM

Hiring at public defenders' offices are sad. They don't they weed out job candidates any more.

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Posted by guest | Permalink Friday, November 30, 2007 6:00 AM

40lbs!!!! OMG!

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Posted by great evals for dime bags | Permalink Friday, November 30, 2007 7:34 AM

why aren't biglaw secretaries this cool?

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Posted by guest | Permalink Friday, November 30, 2007 9:22 AM

"Oh please. It's not like she worked in the prosecutor's office; she worked for the PD."

Exactly. She probably only kept it on the DL because her colleagues would've asked her to share.

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Posted by anon | Permalink Friday, November 30, 2007 9:48 AM

new york to 40 lbs!!

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Posted by guest | Permalink Friday, November 30, 2007 10:20 AM

I wouldn't expect any less from someone at the public pretender's office....bunch of clowns!!

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