Legal Ethics

Lawyer Who Once Worked As A Stripper Asks For Pardon

He uses the governor's own argument for the pardon.

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Missouri Governor Eric Greitens was recently indicted on felony charges of invasion of privacy. He’s accused of taking partially nude pictures of a former mistress without her knowledge in an attempt to blackmail her. Greitens has argued that the law in question should not apply to people engaged in consensual activities in a home, but instead only apply to peeping toms that take pictures in public places such as restrooms.

Now a lawyer is using the governor’s own argument against him.

Paul Henreid is currently a lawyer in California, but he used to be an exotic dancer in St. Louis. In 1999, while a law student at Washington University Law School, he pleaded guilty to invasion of privacy under that same law Governor Greitens was indicted under. Henreid spent 30 days in jail for videotaping lovers without their consent, but now he wants a pardon from Greitens.

Henreid made the same argument about the law not applying to consensual sexual encounters, and he wants to be pardoned:

“What’s good for the governor should be good for the gander,” says Henreid’s lawyer, Albert Watkins, in a press release.

Henreid first applied for a pardon in 2011 under then Governor Jay Nixon. It was neither rejected nor granted, instead left pending. Now he believes he deserves a pardon:

[Henreid] admits that his actions were “deceitful and immoral,” but says the punishment he has suffered and continues to suffer “is unwarranted based on the facts of this case.”

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The governor has yet to weigh in on Henreid’s application for a pardon.

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