The ABA Journal reports that the South Carolina courts have disbarred attorney Jacob Leon Parrott based upon a history of sexual misconduct including indecent exposure and voyeurism.
The disbarment order, entered on August 12 but publicly reported over the weekend, is retroactive to his 2018 arrest for “indecent exposure for exposing his genitals and masturbating in public.”
The South Carolina Supreme Court cited two matters involving similar behavior in Parrott’s disciplinary history. In 1997, he was suspended for four months after he entered an Alford plea to a charge of simple assault and battery for pulling down a woman’s bathing suit three years earlier. The court also noted that he was previously accused of trying to pull off another woman’s bikini bottom in 1989 but was not prosecuted for that offense.
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He was also previously suspended over upskirt photos and failing to report that arrest to professional licensing authorities.
It’s hard to believe that someone like this could have ever practiced law — it’s almost as if the bar exam and protecting the public from bad lawyers aren’t connected in any way. Weird.
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Lawyer is disbarred after history of indecent exposure, voyeurism [ABA Journal]
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