February 2, 2021 at 12:08 PM
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Tennessee attorney Winston Bradshaw Sitton has been suspended for four years, with one year to be served on active suspension and the remainder on probation for his response to a friend’s Facebook post where he appears to give specific advice on how to avoid prosecution if she shot her ex-boyfriend.
According to reports, Sitton has claimed his posts were “dark humor” and “sarcastic,” with the goal of dissuading the woman from carrying a gun in her car. Here’s how the interactions at the core of the suspension played out:
Sitton wrote the Facebook post after the woman posted in December 2017: “I need to always carry my gun with me now, don’t I? Is it legal to carry in TN in your car without paying the damn state?”
A Nashville attorney’s license has been suspended for four years after he posted advice on Facebook about how to make murder look like self-defense. He contends it was sarcastic and was never meant literally.
Alberto LuperonJan 25th, 2021, 1:11 pm
The career of a Tennessee attorney just received a dent from the state’s Supreme Court after he gave a woman advice on how to legally kill her ex.
Winston Bradshaw Sitton says that the full context was not considered. Justices don’t buy it, saying in a majority opinion that the Board of Professional Responsibility hearing panel did not stand in the way of him introducing evidence.
Trouble stemmed from comments he wrote to a Facebook friend, who was a woman experiencing serious issues with the father of her child. According to the court’s ruling, Sitton was not her attorney, but knew about “allegations of abuse, harassment, violations of child custody arrangement, and requests for orders of protection.”
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Nashville attorney’s license suspended after posting advice on getting away with murder
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By JULIA JACOBO, ABC News
(NASHVILLE, Tenn.) The license of a Nashville, Tennessee attorney has been suspended for four years after he posted advice on how to get away with murder.
The advice was given in 2017 in response to a post by a Facebook friend who described a “tumultuous” breakup with her child’s father and inquired about the legality of carrying a gun in her car, according to court documents filed in the Supreme Court of Tennessee on Friday.