Kent W. Easter
[Kent Easter’s] disbarment — and, earlier, that of his attorney wife for the same offense — demonstrate[s] that a felony conviction, the fact and circumstances of which involve moral turpitude, can lead to an attorney’s ouster from the profession even where unrelated to the practice of law.
— An excerpt from the attorney discipline section of the September edition of the California Bar Journal, commenting on Kent Easter’s unbelievable case. Recall that in 2011, Kent and Jill Easter were accused of planting marijuana and prescription drugs on Kelli Peters, a volunteer at their child’s elementary school, in an act of revenge. In 2014, Kent was convicted of felony false imprisonment and sentenced to six months in jail, serving only 87 days in jail. Jill pleaded guilty to the same charge, and spent 60 days behind bars. Jill, who changed her name to Ava Everheart, was disbarred in 2014. The couple has since divorced, and Peters won a $5.7 million civil verdict against them in 2016. Prior to his misdeeds, Kent was a securities litigation partner at Stradling Yocca.
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