Once Cleveland's Top Municipal Lawyer, Cornell Carter May Lose Law License
Convicted in a felony case concerning the misuse of a former employer’s credit card, the onetime director of the municipal law department in Cleveland agreed to a deal that would save his law license.
Cornell Carter, 41, entered a one-year diversion program that could have resulted in the case being dismissed, reports the Plain Dealer. Meanwhile, his law license was suspended for two years, with one year stayed. But, because Carter reportedly didn’t comply with the terms of the program, the Ohio Supreme Court is now seeking to disbar him, the newspaper says.
Carter didn’t pay $273 in court costs, prove employment, or seek reinstatement of his driver’s license, the article says. He also missed 21 of 43 counseling appointments, accordring to Brad Gessner, criminal division chief at the Summit County prosecutor’s office.
“He didn’t do the bare minimum to stay in the program,” Gessner tells the Plain Dealer. “So it was appropriate for him to be terminated, and he was sentenced.”
Earlier this year, Common Pleas Judge Paul Gallagher refused to allow Carter to rescind his guilty plea and sentenced him to one year of probation.
