Consent To Disbarment Filed By Attorney Who Attacked Husband’s Former Boss
A lawyer convicted in a high-profile criminal matter has consented to disbarment in Illinois.
[The crime] involved Movant aiding and abetting her husband, Illinois attorney Andrew Gilbert Schmuhl, taking a partner in Movant’s former law firm, and the partner’s wife, hostage and attacking them in the couple’s McLean, Virginia, home…
Counts I and III of the indictment charged that on or about November 9, 2014, Movant abducted Leo Fisher (“Fisher”) and Sue Duncan (“Duncan”), with the intent to gain pecuniary benefit, in violation of Section 18.2-48 of the Code of Virginia.1 Counts II and IV charged that Movant caused bodily injury to Fisher and Duncan with the intent to maim, disfigure, disable or kill them, thereby severely injuring and causing them to suffer permanent and significant physical impairment, in violation of Section 18.2-51.2 of the Code of Virginia. Count V charged Movant with entering Fisher and Duncan’s dwelling in McLean, Virginia, in the nighttime, while armed with a dangerous weapon, with the intent to commit an abduction, in violation of Section 18.2-91 of the Code of Virginia. Count VI charged Movant with driving her motor vehicle in a willful and wanton disregard of a visible or audible signal from a law enforcement officer to bring her motor vehicle to a stop, in violation of Section 46.2-817(B) of the Code of Virginia.
On September 19, 2016, Movant signed pleas of guilty to Counts I (abduction with the intent to extort money), II (aggravated maiming), III (abduction with the intent to extort money), IV (aggravated maiming), and V (burglary) of the indictment in case number FE-2015-465…
On January 24, 2017, the court in case number FE-2015-465 sentenced Movant to incarceration with the Virginia Department of Corrections for a term of life on each of Counts I, II, III, IV and V, with the sentences to run concurrently. The court further ordered that all but 45 years of the sentence be suspended. As conditions of the suspended sentence, the court ordered that upon her release from incarceration, Movant be of good behavior and be placed on probation for life.
(Mike Frisch)