Legal Justice
Lawyer disbarred following little one intercourse crime conviction
A Georgia legal professional who pleaded responsible in August 2025 to a child-related felony was disbarred in a unanimous determination issued Tuesday by the Georgia Supreme Court docket. (Picture from Shutterstock)
A Georgia legal professional who pleaded responsible in August 2025 to a child-related felony was disbarred in a unanimous determination issued Tuesday by the Georgia Supreme Court docket.
Forsyth County, Georgia, lawyer Richard Linwood Parsons had been arrested in New Jersey and later pleaded responsible Aug. 4, 2025, to 1 depend of third-degree endangering the welfare of a kid.
The state supreme court docket determined July 7 that his conviction violated the Georgia Guidelines of Skilled Conduct.
Parsons was admitted to the State Bar of Georgia in 2012. Based on the Georgia Supreme Court docket’s opinion, the conviction stemmed from sexually express on-line conversations that Parsons had with somebody he thought was 14 years outdated.
Three different fees have been dismissed as a part of the plea settlement. Parsons was sentenced to time served and lifelong parole. He should register as a intercourse offender, in response to a story by Fox 5 Atlanta.
Parsons was considered one of 21 males arrested throughout a multiagency undercover investigation in New Jersey in 2024. Investigators stated the operation focused adults utilizing social media to lure youngsters for intercourse.
A particular grasp appointed within the disciplinary case in opposition to Parsons discovered that he had no prior disciplinary historical past and cooperated with the State Bar of Georgia’s investigation. Nevertheless, the particular grasp stated the offense “concerned critical legal conduct with the potential for important hurt and really useful disbarment,” in response to Fox 5 Atlanta.
The Georgia Supreme Court docket agreed and stated permitting an legal professional convicted of a child-related intercourse offense to proceed training legislation “would erode public confidence within the authorized occupation,” in response to Fox 5 Atlanta.
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