The Ohio Supreme Court on Wednesday suspended a criminal defense attorney for one year, with six months stayed, over the attorney filling a Pringles can with his own feces and throwing it in the parking lot of a victim advocacy center just before meeting with the center’s staff in court about a murder case.
Jack Allen Blakeslee waffled on why he did what he did in the first place, according to the Buckeye State justices’ opinion, at one point saying Blakeslee regularly left Pringles cans full of his excrement in random locations as a “prank.” At another time, he claimed he did so as a form of protest without clarifying what exactly he was meant to be protesting, the opinion states.
Even though there is no specific rule prohibiting attorneys from pooping in potato chip cans and throwing them in parking lots, the justices said Blakeslee’s actions indicate he cannot practice law at the moment.
“Despite societal standards of cleanliness and decorum, Blakeslee failed to control his own bizarre impulses to place feces-filled cans out in public for unsuspecting people to find,” the justices said. “His aberrant conduct has adversely reflected on his own fitness to practice law and brought discredit to the profession through significant media attention.”
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