PoughkeepsieJournal.comNot excruciating enough (for lawyers) that a former lawyer with (arguably) the most prestigious law firm in the United Stares was not only arrested for a paying a mother for sex with her children, was then fired, and then sued Cravath, dirt bag former tax lawyer James Colliton is once again in the news, once again for filing a lawsuit blaming others for his fall from grace/resulting quality of life.
As we previously reported, On October 2, 2007, Colliton pleaded guilty to second- and third-degree statutory rape and patronizing a prostitute. The married former tax lawyer, who also had five children of his own, was charged in connection with his payment to a woman so he could have sex with her two children.
Colliton, it was alleged, repeatedly had sex the children, ages 13 and 15, after paying their mother for permission.
Colliton, arrested and fired by his law firm in 2006, was sentenced in October, 2007 to the 19 months he had already served in jail awaiting trial and declared a sex offender. (See our prior post here .)
Then, as also reported here, Colliton sued his former employer Cravath, Swaine & Moore for salary, vacation pay and even annual bonus payments to which he claimed to be entitled.
Free after (incredibly) being sentenced to time served after paying a mother to have sex with her children, Colliton claims he has been harassed by town police officers who regularly visit his physical residence, which Colliton listed as a Route 9 motel. The visits are part of a sex offender monitoring program initiated several years ago by county District Attorney William Grady.
Colliton claims the program violates state law and deprives him of his constitutional right to privacy and his Fourth Amendment right against unlawful searches.
Describing police visits as the "intentional infliction of emotional distress," Colliton recently served town and county officials with a notice of claim - often a precursor to filing suit.
In his eight-page claim filed last month, Colliton indicates he intends to seek $3 million in compensatory damages and $97 million in punitive damages in federal court.
"I have suffered liberty and property deprivations," Colliton wrote in his notice, which he apparently authored. He said police "visits came and keep coming even though no court has adjudged they are lawful."
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