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After hearing three days of testimony in the Wyoming State Barâs disciplinary case against former Teton County deputy prosecutor Becket Hinckley, a bar panel found Hinckley violated seven rules of professional conduct and will recommend to the Wyoming Supreme Court that he be disbarred.
âI take no pleasure in this,â presiding officer and former Albany County judge Jeffrey Donnell said. âI have known Mr. Hinckley since he was 6 years old. This is a real tragedy.â
In his closing statements Wednesday, bar counsel Mark Gifford said Hinckley deserves to be stripped of his law license.
Steve Kline, whoâs representing Hinckley, said a three-year suspension of his clientâs license to practice law is more appropriate because before his âscrew upsâ in the prosecution of Josh Black, there had been no formal complaints lodged against Hinckley.
CASPER â After spending years in prison and getting his criminal conviction overturned, Josh Black is back in the courtroom, but this time itâs Becket Hinckley whoâs in the hot seat.
Black, 41, testified Monday as the star witness in the disciplinary hearing against Hinckley, the former Teton County deputy prosecutor whoâs being taken to task for a laundry list of alleged misconduct during Blackâs 2015 aggravated assault trial.
âI am not going to get anything out of this,â Black said during his testimony Monday. âThe only reason I am here is . justice isnât just one-sided. The other side affects someone else too.â
The Wyoming Supreme Court recently enforced a civil investigative subpoena issued by the Wyoming Attorney General to purported debt relief company, WyoLaw. The Attorney General issued this subpoena to the Wyoming-registered entity after receiving consumer complaints alleging that WyoLaw had failed to provide promised legal debt settlement services to its consumers after accepting advance payment for the work. Seeking to investigate these complaints, the Attorney General issued a subpoena to the company in late 2019. Challenging the Attorney General’s subpoena authority, WyoLaw unsuccessfully petitioned the Natrona County District Court to invalidate this subpoena. After failing at the district court level, WyoLaw appealed the decision to the Wyoming Supreme Court.
Wyoming Supreme Court enforces subpoena against ‘purported’ debt relief company WyoLaw By Greg Hirst on May 7, 2021
(File photo, Trevor T. Trujillo; Oil City)
CASPER, Wyo The Wyoming Supreme Court has ruled to enforce a subpoena against ‘purported debt relief company’ WyoLaw, LLC, according to a release Friday from the Wyoming Attorney General’s office.
The Attorney General issued the subpoena in late 2019 to the “after receiving consumer complaints alleging that WyoLaw had failed to provide promised legal debt settlement services to its consumers after accepting advance payment for the work,” the release said.
According to release, Cheyenne-based WyoLaw, unsuccessfully petitioned the Natrona County District Court to invalidate this subpoena before appealing the decision to the Wyoming Supreme Court.