Bribed Prosecutor Resigns From Bar

The Indiana Supreme Court accepted the resignation of an attorney convicted of bribery.

IndyStar had this report on the conviction

Former deputy prosecutor David Wyser’s after-the-fact acceptance of a $2,500 reward for approving the early release of a convicted killer was a “wobble” in an otherwise unblemished career of public service, federal Judge Sarah Evans Barker said Monday as she sentenced Wyser to three years of probation.

The sentence, which will begin in January with six months of house arrest at Wyser’s home in Nevada, was significantly less than the 15 to 21 months in prison sought by federal prosecutors.

And from the Herald Bulletin

The Indiana Supreme Court has accepted the resignation of former Marion County Deputy Prosecutor David Wyser from the practice of law in Indiana.                                                                                

Wyser was placed on an indefinite suspension in February after pleading guilty to bribery charges. Rather than try and fight the suspension, he chose to resign from the Indiana Bar which the court accepted last week.

In 2009, while working in the Marion County prosecutor’s office, he accepted a bribe of $2,500 from the father of a convicted murderer Wyser was representing. The bribe was made as a political donation when Wyser was running for Marion County prosecutor. In exchange, Wyser was able to get his client’s sentence reduced from 110 years to 70 years to time served after the contributions.

Wyser is now banned from practicing law in Indiana for at least five years when he may apply for reinstatement if he chooses. 

He had worked in Madison County as a deputy prosecutor from January 2012 to May 2013, but resigned after the allegations of bribery. The case was not connected to his work in Madison County, Prosecutor Rodney Cummings said in previous news stories.

(Mike Frisch)