Related: Middlesex Prosecutor Addicted to Pain Pills
"Ex-prosecutor gets 5 years probation in corruption case" by Peter Schworm, Globe Staff January 16, 2015
WOBURN — A former Middlesex County prosecutor was sentenced to five years of probation after pleading guilty Friday to selling confidential law enforcement information to his drug supplier and receiving a payment from a woman who wanted to get her son’s license restored.
Stephen Gilpatric, who worked in the public protection, antiterrorism, corruption, and technology unit, said he accepted responsibility for his crimes. His lawyer, Melinda Thompson, said Gilpatric became “caught up in a drug addiction” that led him to trade information for oxycodone pills.
“This can happen to anyone,” she said at a hearing in Middlesex Superior Court. His actions were “absolutely out of character,” she said. By 2011, he was “spending his paycheck as soon as he received it,” prosecutors said.
It's an ama$ing attitude when compared with the illegal drugs, isn't it?
Gilpatric has since beaten his addiction, his lawyer said. In court Friday, he told the judge he had been seeing a psychiatrist for “issues surrounding addiction and depression.”
You always do that to look good in the eyes of the court. Client is getting counseling, your honor.
Gilpatric must submit to random drug testing during his probation and cannot work in law enforcement....
That mean he out a job?
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