The Associated Press*****BREAKING******
California attorney Eric Fagan—who authored a book about Internet dating—was arrested for the alleged slaying 20 years ago of is girlfriend’s daughter--so the woman could gain custody of her granddaughter, authorities told the Associated Press.
Fagan, 74, was arrested at his home in Chula Vista and was being held without bail on suspicion of murder and attempted murder, according to a San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department statement.
Fagan is accused of shooting Cathy Paternoster, then 32, and wounding Carl Fuerst, then 41, outside their Spring Valley Lake home in 1989.
According to State Bar of California records, Fagan is a graduate of the Irvine University School of Law and has no significant prior disciplinary record with the State Bar. He as been an attorney since 1979.
In June, 2001 Fagan published a book through the Harvard Common Press titled “Cast Your Net: A Step-by-Step Guide to Finding Your Soulmate on the Internet".
According to Fagan’s website, the criminally accused septuagenarian barrister graduated Magna Cum Laude from the Irvine University School of Law in Southern California in 1979, and began practicing real estate law.
In 1995, he turned his practice over to two of his sons, Craig and Stuart.
No word on whether Craig or Stuart handles criminal cases.
4 comments:
Just goes to show you. Those lawyers arent worth the ink they use to sign there diplomas with!
What do you call 1000 lawyers at the bottom of the sea? A Good Start...
Not to discourage attorney jokes (or any humorous posts on this site) but we see this story as illustrating two important principle of human nature:
1. Lawyers are human beings, and therefore subject to the same failings suffered by the general population; and
2. You never know what truly lurks in the heart of many a "respectable" (or for that matter a "disreputable" person).
That said, in our experience and personal case, the vast majority of lawyers care a great deal about their client's problems and legal issues, and are generally willing to pursue those interests at their own social and financial risk.
Finally, I would leave you with the observation that those 1,000 lawyers that you have vanquished to the bottom of the sea will not be in a position to come to the aid of you, your son, your wife, your nephew, daughter, or friend if they are wronged (let's say by, a drunk driver, a Madoff, or other wrongdoer)--or--if thy are wrongly arrested and criminally charged.
In any of those circumstances we assure you that (having represented all categories of such persons for 32 years) you will regret the lack of availability of an attorney to ride to the rescue.
Not sure how anyone does not see that there is something wrong with this, the boyfriend was a body builder and he fought off the 54 year old Attorney? Hummmm, seems to me that Eric Fagan would not have survived much less fled the scene. How the hell can't anyone figure that one out, simple sense.
We don't know a lot about the case, but didn't the man you refer to as a 'body builder' suffer a gunshot wound and was not the assailant armed with a gun?
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