Criminal Justice
Chicago Lawyer Convicted of Bringing Contraband into Jail
It wasn’t just legal papers that a Chicago lawyer reportedly intended to hand to an inmate in a Cook County lockup last year.
Attorney Nathan Billmaier, 35, had 4 ounces each of illegal marijuana and and contraband tobacco, six Ecstasy tablets and 40 matches interspersed with legal papers, authorities said when he was charged. And yesterday, after a bench trial, a Cook County Circuit Court judge convicted him of possession with intent to deliver and bringing contraband into a penal institution, the Chicago Tribune reports in a breaking news story.
No comment from Billmaier is included in the article.
As discussed in an earlier ABAJournal.com post, another Chicago lawyer was charged early this year in a similar case.
