This fellow makes the news more than I'd have imagined...

An ethics complaint alleges a downstate Illinois lawyer attempted to sway public opinion against the prosecution of his drug client by posting a discovery video online.

Lawyer Jesse Raymond Gilsdorf hired a company to post the video of an undercover drug buy on YouTube in April 2011 and then linked to it on Facebook, according to the complaint. The two-part video received more than 2,000 hits before a judge ordered its removal. The Legal Profession Blog has a story.

The video was labeled “Cops and Task Force Planting Drugs.” It implied that police had engaged in improper conduct and entrapped Gilsdorf’s client, who was charged with unlawful delivery of a controlled substance in Pike County, the complaint alleges. Gilsdorf did not receive the consent of his client before posting the video, the complaint says.

Gilsdorf was out of his office in Mount Sterling and unavailable for comment.

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Journal-Courier
Drug paraphernalia and powdery piles believed to be controlled substances were seized Wednesday from the Mount Sterling home of a prominent attorney after the arrests of two men.

Neither the attorney, Jesse R. Gilsdorf, nor his wife, Patti, was charged after a search of their house at 7 Grandview Drive.

Gilsdorf said his stepson, Wes Carey, lives in an apartment in the basement of his residence that has its own kitchen, bathroom, living room and bedroom.

The search warrant was obtained after Carey, 20, and Mark Lipcaman, 46, were arrested earlier in the day. The two were at the house when a parole agent conducted a routine check of Lipcaman’s compliance with conditions of his parole, Brown County State’s Attorney Mark Vincent said Thursday.

Parole agent David Farkas called the sheriff’s department to help him after he said he spotted drug paraphernalia and brown and white powders as well as a leafy substance in plain sight in the basement area of the home, Vincent said.

Lipcaman was released Jan. 20 on supervised parole after serving a two-year prison sentence on burglary and unlawful use of a weapon convictions.

Gilsdorf said he had no knowledge about the items seized during the search.

“I’ve got nothing to do with it. I’ve not been charged with possession of felony drugs,” Gilsdorf said. “The parole agent went over to a house where (Lipcaman) was working and brought him to my stepson’s residence so he could be arrested there.”

Lipcaman used to live with the Gilsdorfs, “but he moved out a long time ago,” Gilsdorf said.

“He told his parole officer that. They brought him back to my house so he could be arrested here. They are trying to embarrass me. They’ve had their fun.”

He declined further comment.

Vincent said nobody took Lipcaman to the residence to be arrested. Lipcaman listed 7 Grandview Drive as his parole address. “Even (Wednesday), Lipcaman and Patti Gilsdorf confirmed that address as being where Lipcaman lived,” Vincent said.

The only reason the parole officer went to the residence was to conduct the compliance check and the two men “were arrested only after the parole officer’s discovery of the items that were in plain view,” Vincent said.

“I understand a large amount of drug paraphernalia was seized,” he said. “I don’t know the weights of the powders they found ... but the powdery substances were characterized as piles.” A brown powdery substance field-tested positive for methamphetamine, Vincent said.

The evidence is being sent to a crime laboratory for analysis.

Vincent is formally filing four charges against the two — misdemeanor possession of cannabis, misdemeanor possession of drug paraphernalia, felony possession of a controlled substance and felony possession of methamphetamine.

The two men are to be in court April 15 for a first appearance.

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