Lawyer of the Day: Harvard Law Student Threatens Police with 'Prestige'

Usually, resisting arrest in Boston involves a wicked scrap with staties.

I guess higher education is supposed to teach you how to use your words instead of your fists. But at Harvard Law, I guess they skip the “oral argument” phase altogether, and go straight to vague prestige threats.

Let’s see how that is working out for one of the brightest Harvard Law stars:

A promising Harvard Law School standout told cops during a bizarre drunken tirade that he would “lie and cheat” to ruin them if — as a future attorney — he ever calls them to a witness stand, police said.

My pres-tige brings all the boys to the yard, and they’re like: it’s better than yours. Damn right: it’s better than yours:

A police report states that Simpkins, 24, made the threat early Saturday morning, just four months from graduation, as he spilled out of a Theater District bar and into the back of a Boston police cruiser, barking to officers, “Give me a (expletive) ride, I work for the district attorney’s office.”

More fun details after the jump.

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Charles C. Simpkins has a fairly high profile on the HLS campus:

A proud conservative, Simpkins seemed destined for a future of unlimited potential.

A graduate of City College of New York, where he majored in philosophy and political science, Simpkins was in 2005 named a Harry S. Truman Scholar for his devotion to public service. He has studied abroad and appeared on several major networks, as well as on YouTube.com, discussing politics.

In a post in September, one political blogger said Simpkins “is what Obama could have been.”

But that bright future might be gone for the youngster:

Simpkins has been booted from his unpaid position assisting prosecutors in Dorchester District Court, for which Harvard hand-picked him.

How long before somebody is telling this guy, “it’s not your fault.”

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DA intern booted after arrest [Boston Herald]