An Illinois attorney has filed a motion for disbarment on consent

On September 5, 2017, following a preliminary hearing, the Ogle County State’s Attorney’s Office filed four separate charges against Respondent, by way of information, for predatory criminal sexual assault of a child, a class X felony, that is punishable by six to sixty years in prison and lifetime sex offender status, in violation of Chapter 720 Section 5/11- 1.40(a)(1) of the Illinois Compiled Statutes. That matter was docketed as People of the State of Illinois v. Benjamin Meyer, case number 2017 CF 148.

Counts one through four of the information charged Movant with committing multiple acts of contact between a part of his body and the sex organs of a victim under the age of 13, in violation of Chapter 720, Section 5/11-1.40(a)(1) of the Illinois Compiled Statutes.

On January 2, 2018, the Ogle County State’s Attorney’s Office filed an amended information against Respondent which retained all four counts of predatory criminal sexual assault of a child, in violation of Chapter 720 Section 5/11-1.40(a)(1) of the Illinois Compiled Statutes, but with changes to the factual allegations of each information.

On February 22, 2018, Movant entered a plea of guilty to amended counts one, two, and four of the amended information, with the State voluntarily dismissing amended count three. On that same date, a judgment order confirming Movant’s plea was entered in case number 2017 CF 148 and the court sentenced Movant to 10 years in the Illinois Department of Corrections for each count, 30 years in total, to be served consecutively (with 85 days credit based on Movant’s actual time in custody). Movant was further ordered to provide a DNA sample, submit to sexually transmitted disease and HIV testing, pay fees and costs, and once released, register as a sex offender for the duration of his natural life.

Ogle County News reported on the crimes. (Mike Frisch)