{"id":8039,"date":"2017-12-25T14:49:47","date_gmt":"2017-12-25T19:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/host1.thenewmasteringanger.com\/?p=8039"},"modified":"2022-06-15T04:58:02","modified_gmt":"2022-06-15T08:58:02","slug":"pair-of-virginia-lawyers-will-have-to-take-anger-management-classes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masteringanger.com\/staging\/blog\/pair-of-virginia-lawyers-will-have-to-take-anger-management-classes\/","title":{"rendered":"Pair of Virginia lawyers will have to take anger management classes"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a bit of reversal from typical\u00a0court ordered anger management<\/a>\u00a0cases, two lawyers in Virginia have been sentenced to participate in\u00a0anger management classes<\/a>\u00a0because of separate offenses.<\/p>\n

A Norfolk attorney, Herman Smith III, had taken on the case of four co-defendants being tried for armed robbery. Smith represented one of the four when he discovered that another member\u00a0of the group had been planning to testify against his client. Upon learning this, Smith yelled into the hall and\u00a0called the other man a “snitch.”<\/a><\/p>\n

“Let everybody in Youngs Park know he’s a snitch,” said Smith, according to\u00a0local publication The Virginian-Pilot.<\/p>\n

Charged with felony obstruction of justice, Smith was sentenced by a circuit judge on Tuesday, July 5 to a suspended 90-day jail sentence, a $500 fine, 75 hours of community service and anger management counseling.<\/p>\n

The other incident involved former Virginia Beach lawyer, Jason Roper. In 2009, Roper had sued lawyer Brian Dinning\u00a0for a couple\u00a0alleging that Dinning swindled them out of investment money. Although Roper had won a $722,000 settlement for his clients, his behavior toward Dinning during a deposition resulted in\u00a0a three-year suspension<\/a>\u00a0from the Virginia State Bar (VSB).<\/p>\n

When Dinning was indicted in 2012 on 25 counts of fraud – leading to a sentence of 20 to 30 years in federal prison – a still-embittered\u00a0Roper\u00a0sent him an incendiary email<\/a>, stating that he “would comfort Dinning’s wife during his absence,” among other taunts, according to Virginia Lawyers Weekly.<\/p>\n

A\u00a0VSB disciplinary board ruled that this was unethical behavior and mandated that Roper attend an\u00a0anger management class<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Individuals required to take anger management should enroll in the\u00a0online anger management classes<\/a>\u00a0of Conflict Coaching & Consulting. Offered entirely over the Internet, these classes provide total privacy and are designed to work completely around your schedule.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a bit of reversal from typical\u00a0court ordered anger management\u00a0cases, two lawyers in Virginia have been sentenced to participate in\u00a0anger management classes\u00a0because of separate offenses.…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8040,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog",""],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masteringanger.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/masteringanger.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/masteringanger.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masteringanger.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masteringanger.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8039"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masteringanger.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44488,"href":"https:\/\/masteringanger.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8039\/revisions\/44488"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masteringanger.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masteringanger.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masteringanger.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masteringanger.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}