Law student convicted for stealing laptop is accused of altering the verdict slip
A Suffolk University law student convicted of stealing a laptop from his school is accused of changing the verdict slip and using the altered document to try to obtain a diploma.
The former law student, 33-year-old David Scher of Brighton, Massachusetts, pleaded not guilty to the allegations on Wednesday, report the Boston Globe, Reuters, Masslive.com, Above the Law and Patch. He was indicted earlier this month on charges of perjury, forgery, tampering with an official document and uttering a false document, according to a press release by the Suffolk County District Attorney’s office.
Scher is accused of returning to the clerk’s office after his March 2014 larceny conviction, where he allegedly obtained the verdict slip, made a copy, altered it, and then replaced the original in the file with the forged copy.
The altered slip was mentioned in Scher’s appeal and presented as authentic after he was charged with leaving the scene of an accident, prosecutors say. He also allegedly used it in a complaint to a state office that oversees conviction records, and in a bid to obtain his law diploma.
Scher received a suspended sentence of 90 days for the laptop theft; he now faces a sentence of up to 20 years in prison if convicted, according to prosecutors.
