Lawyer Admits Destroying Child Porn Evidence
A Connecticut lawyer has entered a guilty plea and admitted he destroyed a computer that contained evidence of child pornography.
Philip Russell pleaded guilty to misprision of a felony for failing to report knowledge of a felony to law enforcement, the Associated Press reports. Russell had represented a Greenwich church whose music director was charged and then convicted of possessing child pornography.
Russell had been accused of obstructing justice under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which only requires a showing that an investigation was foreseeable rather than pending, ABAJournal.com noted yesterday.
Prosecutors had argued in a brief that Russell had “substantial experience” in such cases and knew that a federal investigation “was foreseeable and likely.”
