to your knowledge, were any of your law partners aware of your addiction? not just to my knowledge. i m certain that they were not aware of my addiction. how would you characterize your point use, your addiction? severe, moderate? then or now? no, in 2020, 2021. i don t know how i would have characterized it then. after going to rehab, learning, more of the things i ve learned, really talking to addicts about experiences. i mean, i will tell you that my addiction was extremely, extremely bad. how were you able to function or were you able to function? yes, i was able to function. you were able to law? yes. and were you successful practicing law while you were
addicts about experiences. i will tell you my addiction was extremely, extremely bad. how were you able to function or were you able to function? yes, i was able to function. you were able to practice law? yes. and were you successful practicing law while you were addicted to opioids? on some level, yes, sir, i was successful. after you were confronted on labor day weekend 2021, did you resign or were you forced to resign from the law firm? absolutely. and then on saturday, september the 4th, do you remember what happened that day?
extremely bad. how were you able to function or were you able to function? yes, i was able to function. you were able to practice law? yes. were you successful practicing law while you were addicted to opiods? on some level, yes, sir, i was successful. i mean, i after you were confronted on labor day weekend 2021, did you resign or were you forced to resign from the law firm? absolutely. and then on saturday, september 4th do you remember what happened that day? saturday, september 4th, yes, sir, i remember. what happened?
0 was doing it and i had that document prepared, handwritten in the neatest handwriting that i could make because a secretary other than mine, a paralegal other than mine was going to be the person who was going to put those that financial information into the final document. and that s the document that mark ball talked about that he found on my desk whenever it was that he found it. so that is what was going to be, if necessary, what was going to be used thursday. the jury has heard about testimony of you stealing client funds. did you do that? i did. did you steal or divert that fee away from the law firm? i did. how did you get in such a financial predicament that led you to steal money that wasn t yours? you know, i m not quite sure how i let myself get where i got. it came from i battled that addiction for so many years. i was spending so much money on pills. i got in a spot i couldn t what type of addiction are you referring to? my addiction is to opiate pain