Lawyer Suspended For Giving Friend Murder Advice

One Tennessee lawyer's license has been suspended following an exchange with a Facebook friend. The state Supreme Court decided to sanction Winston B. Sitton, of Nashville, after his comments on a woman's post were discovered. Apparently, the woman asked about how to handle abuse by an ex-partner, to which Sitton replied to tell her to lure him to her home, shoot him and then claim he broke in to harm her. He also advised the woman to delete the post, but her ex had already screenshotted it to send to prosecutors. The 30-year law veteran told the panel he did nothing wrong besides having a "dark humor." The supreme court decided to issue a four-year suspension, with three of those years serving as a probationary period.


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