During A Solar Eclipse

The Ohio Board of Professional Conduct has recommended  an 18-month suspension with all but six months stayed with conditions.

Our prior reporting on the charges

Ohio Disciplinary Counsel has charged an attorney with misconduct after his employment had been terminated by a law firm.

The firm employees had gathered outside their office to observe the April 8, 2024 solar eclipse.

Respondent allegedly parked his car across the street from the office and “had a shaved head and marked his face with paint.”

Respondent retrieved a small axe or hatchet and metal baseball bat from the back of his car.

In the presence of the Maislin Law employees, respondent made threatening remarks, including asking Attorney Blake Maislin to come outside and face him in a duel.

Most of the Maislin Law employees retreated into the office building.

Teresa Mounce, respondent’s former legal assistant at Maislin Law, approached respondent.

She told respondent that he needed to calm down and leave. A few minutes later,

She told respondent that he needed to calm down and leave. A few minutes later, respondent left.

However, 5 to 10 minutes later, respondent drove past the Maislin Law building.

Staff from Maislin Law called the police, but they arrived after respondent had already left.

A text to Mounce that evening

I’m a Blackfeet Warrior. You want to do work? I will take scalps.

I was praying Blake would come out. I was praying that he would choose the bat since he likes baseball, so I could execute my plan and take his scalp and drink his blood in front of you and while I raged like a deranged starving cornered vengeful beast that prayed on its predator.

So don’t think that the jew [his former employer] whose dad was a judge and family was in the trucking industry, who I outweigh by 40 lbs of muscle, who I shaved my head in preparation for would ever have a chance in warfare.

I drew a bulls on my Adams Apple and jugular in case he chose the hatchet but would have fucking seriously pissed me off because I couldn’t take scalps until I brained him with that bat.
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There is another device called a Molotov cocktail that I think would be tremendously effective during a big mediation, bring some innocents into it, to exponentially heighten the mother fucking horror.

The report notes that Respondent has been suspended on an interim basis since April 2024.

The proposed conditions would require him to refrain from future misconduct, pay costs and have a favorable assessment from the Bar’s treatment program and a qualified healthcare professional. (Mike Frisch)