WHAT A HEEL: Amped Attorney
Attorney Charles Ramsay, 43, was sentenced Monday to two days in jail and ordered to perform 240 hours of community work service on a charge of third-degree felony drug possession for snorting cocaine at the Winona County Courthouse while he was representing a murderer, reports the Star Tribune (Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN):
Ramsay had been arrested after a Winona police investigator and a laboratory technician who had been called to testify in the murder trial noticed cocaine residue on a chair, table and floor of a conference room, just after Ramsay left it. The investigator then spotted Ramsay sniffing hard and wiping his nose after being in a nearby bathroom. …
"This was a crime that occurred within a courthouse and was committed by an officer of the court at a time when he was in the process of representing a private client in a criminal case - so certainly a very disturbing set of circumstances, and he was held accountable for that," [Dakota County Attorney James Backstrom] said.
Ramsay was also fined $2,500 and placed on probation for 10 years. If he completes his sentence, his felony conviction will be knocked down to a misdemeanor.
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