(IRVINE, CA) It's no Harper Valley PTA sitcom at a Plaza Vista Elementary School where a husband-wife duo are accused of planting drugs in a teacher aid's car because they were displeased with her care for their son. Kent and Jill Easter, both California attorneys, apparently decided they would teach this teacher's aid a lesson.
Assuming that their expertise in law assured them to be the perfect criminal couple, the Easter's decided to frame the teacher's aid for a crime. According to reports, officials believe that Kent Easter placed pot and prescription pain killers in the volunteer's car. Subsequently, investigators surmise that Easter posed as a school parent under a fake name and reported seeing the volunteer driving idiotically through the school parking lot.
After being stopped, teacher's aid Kelly Peters was taken into custody when authorities found the planted drugs in her car. Peters must have been very convincing in her pleas of innocence and explanations to investigators. Upon conclusion of a home search which Peters voluntarily agreed to, investigators shifted their efforts toward the Easters.
Originally, the lawyer-duo of Easter and Easter pleaded not guilty to the charges of conspiracy to commit a crime, conspiracy to file false police report, and false imprisonment. However, in the time leading up to trial, something tainted marital bliss as Jill Easter eventually plead guilty to false imprisonment and was sentenced last month.
Kent Easter, refusing to go down for the great frame-up, maintains his innocence claiming that his wife actually spotted the drugs in the volunteer's car and influenced him to report it. During opening arguments which began yesterday, Easter's attorney portrays him as a spineless, wife-whipped wimp as he laid out the "my-wife-made-me-do-it" defense.
The defense claims that Kent Easter was actually sick in bed and on medication the evening that the drugs were planted in the car. The defense also claims that Jill Easter was having an affair at that time the scandal went down. The couple is now separated but not divorced, and Jill Easter is listed on the witness list for the defense.
In what is deemed to be a prosecution savvy case complete with video, audio and DNA evidence, prosecutors assert that Kent Easter did maliciously conspire with his wife, citing that they were in constant contact via telephone and text during the entire episode. Prosecutors intend to prove that Kent Easter made the fake report when calling from a public phone located in a hotel.
One thing is certainly to prevail during this trial; married lawyers do not a perfect criminal conspiracy make.
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