Unwise counsel: US lawyer Chad Frese deletes Facebook post calling client a ‘terrible criminal’ who deserves jail
- The Iowa defence lawyer said he didn’t think the Facebook post about an ‘idiot’ client crossed any lines
A lawyer representing a suspect in a notorious Iowa murder removed a Facebook post Friday in which he called another client an “idiot” and “terrible criminal” who deserved to be jailed.
Marshalltown defence attorney Chad Frese said his post was being misinterpreted by other lawyers, who said the rant was highly inappropriate and likely violated ethics rules governing the profession.
He said he shared the post only with his Facebook friends and that he didn’t think it crossed any lines.
He needed to shut his mouth because he was the dumbest person in the conversation by 100 times. You wonder why we need jails huh?
Frese and his wife are representing Cristhian Bahena-Rivera, who is charged in the July slaying of 20-year-old college student Mollie Tibbetts in Brooklyn, Iowa. Rivera, a Mexican national suspected of being in the US illegally, is scheduled to stand trial in April in a case that has inflamed passions about immigration.