Tuesday, October 15, 2024
Not A Border Issue
The Idaho Supreme Court accepted an attorney's resignation
Between 2022 and 2023, Mr. Dunn conspired with two clients and others to traffic methamphetamine and fentanyl. In November 2022, Mr. Dunn caused fentanyl to be distributed to a client who was incarcerated in a county jail. On September 14, 2023, Mr. Dunn was indicted and charged in the U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho with four felony counts related to that conduct. On July 18, 2024, Mr. Dunn pleaded guilty under a Rule 11 Plea Agreement to one count of conspiracy to distribute fentanyl and methamphetamine, with a recommended 42-month term of imprisonment.
In the resulting disciplinary case, Mr. Dunn admitted that he engaged in a concurrent conflict of interest in violation of I.R.P.C. 1.7(a)(2) and committed a criminal act that reflected adversely on his fitness as a lawyer in violation of I.R.P.C. 8.4(b).
East Idaho News.com reported
Robin Dunn, a former county prosecutor and city attorney in eastern Idaho, was ordered to serve time in prison Wednesday.
Dunn was sentenced by Senior U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill to 42 months, or 3 and a half years, in federal prison.
Law enforcement background
Dunn worked as the Jefferson County Prosecuting Attorney for 34 years before retiring in 2016. He also served as the Rigby City Attorney for nearly three decades before stepping down at the end of last year to “redirect his career,” The Jefferson Star reported.
Specifics
During the conspiracy, Dunn and a client made two trips to the Salt Lake City area to pick up methamphetamine and fentanyl,” the release says. “Dunn and the client then brought the drugs back to Idaho for distribution to others.”
Court records also say that in November 2022, Dunn caused fentanyl to be distributed into the Bonneville County Jail to an inmate who was also his client.
Dunn reportedly agreed that he abused a position of trust by using his position as an attorney to further his drug trafficking activities.
During the Greater Idaho Falls Police Foundation Law Enforcement Appreciation Luncheon, Bonneville County Sheriff Sam Hulse gave a speech where he said a fentanyl overdose occurred in the county jail due to former Jefferson County prosecutor Robin Dunn’s actions.
An attorney who resigns may seek reinstatement after five years. (Mike Frisch)
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