Was jut googling to find out a little bit about Lester Munson's Illinois issues and came across this article, sounds like they've known a long time he's a fraud. LOL
http://liestoppers.blogspot.com/2007/03/lester-munson-legal-expert.html
From Article
Curiously,
Sports Illustrated prefaces several articles by touting Munson as:
“legal expert Lester Munson, who is closely following the case involving members of the Duke lacrosse team”
This introduction mistakenly gives the impression that Mr. Munson is a legal expert and is aware of the revealed facts of the case. It seems, however, neither impression is true.
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Given Mr. Munson’s
woeful history with the Illinois
Attorney Registration And Disciplinary Commission , an agency of the Illinois Supreme Court that investigates “allegations of misconduct by lawyers” and prosecutes “the cases where a lawyer's misconduct suggests a threat to the public or to the integrity of the legal profession,” and his continued misrepresentations of the facts of the case, it is difficult to understand what qualifies him as a legal expert and what constitutes “closely following the case.”
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Equally confusing are both Mr. Munson’s assertion that he is “baffled by the conduct of Mike Nifong” and the mock disdain he shows in this comment: “As a lawyer and as a journalist, I am appalled at what he did . . .” With a penchant for misconduct that is
well documented by the Illinois Attorney Registration And Disciplinary Commission, including “conduct which is prejudicial to the administration of justice,” one might expect that Munson could relate quite well to Defendant Nifong’s actions and current difficulties with the North Carolina State Bar. With regard to Defendant Nifong, one might expect that the combination of Munson's personal experience and self promoted ability "to put criminal charges and civil litigation in the sports industry into a context that gives new insights" would not leave him baffled nor appalled.
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After his admittance to the Illinois State Bar in 1976 and practicing law for 13 years, it appears Munson, facing multiple charges of misconduct occurring during a time he was already on probation by the Ilinois Bar, voluntarily agreed to discontinue practicing law. As a mitigating factor in his misconduct, Munson pointed to his alcoholism. In its 1991 decision to suspend Munson’s law license because of his continued misconduct while on probation, the Disciplinary Commission wrote:
“On September 30, 1986, Respondent was suspended from the practice of law for three years and until further order of the Court, and this suspension was stayed and Respondent was placed on probation for three years with conditions. In re Munson, No. 85 CH 57, M.R. 4029. Respondent's misconduct included his neglect of three client matters as well as misstatements regarding the status of two of the client matters. Respondent's misconduct was attributable to his alcoholism.”
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“In October 1989, Respondent discontinued practicing. Respondent has no current intention to return to the practice of law.”
At the risk of stating the obvious, it is amazing that
Sports Illustrated's so-called legal “expert” is one whose ethical lapses led him to stop practicing law in order to lessen the consequences of his misdeeds. Considering that the Disciplinary Commission found Munson engaged in conduct “involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit or misrepresentation,” it is no surprise that his coverage of the Hoax has been equally distorted.
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Regarding Mr. Munson’s “expert” assertion that “99 times out of 100, the police have the right guy, and you'll find that most people arrested were involved in something. Getting the wrong guy is very unusual,” it should be noted that Durham County and US Department of Justice statistics belie his false statement. Under disgraced District Attorney Mike Nifong, over half (52%) of the cases disposed in
2005/2006 were done so by dismissal contrary to Munson's assertion of "the fact that most people who are arrested are guilty and plead guilty." This percentage of dismissals is slightly greater than the statewide average of 48% for the same period. A review of the Department of Justice’s annual
Compendium of Federal Justice Statistics reveals that, on average annually, approximately one third of all suspects investigated are not prosecuted, and nearly half of those suspects prosecuted by Federal agencies are found not guilty. For example, in
2002, of 124,074 suspects arrested 36,347 (29%) defendants had no criminal cases commenced against them, while 42.3% were either not prosecuted or were found not guilty of the crimes for which they were arrested.
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As for Mr. Munson’s numerous misrepresentations regarding the Hoax and his continuing efforts to cast aspersions on the victims of Defendant Nifong’s malicious prosecution, Professor Johnson’s dissection noted above demonstrates well that Lester Munson either is not “closely following the case” as
SI pretends or is again willfully misrepresenting facts.
