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Ex-lawyer wins early release from jail
The Associated Press//September 28, 2015//
A former attorney serving a three-year sentence for embezzling fees from her law firm has won a judge’s permission for early release.
Kyle C. Leftwich pocketed fees from disability cases without telling her firm, Marks & Harrison. Sentenced to three years and four months, she has been serving the time since 2013 at the Henrico County jail.
Circuit Judge Lee A. Harris Jr. last week allowed Leftwich to participate in a home incarceration program, the Richmond Times-Dispatch reported. The judge had denied a similar request in January.
Leftwich argued she was needed at home to care for her school aged children. Law firm president James G. Harrison III opposed Leftwich’s request.
Harrison said Leftwich embezzled between $630,000 and $800,000 and the firm did not believe she was “the least bit sorry for her actions.”
Leftwich surrendered her bar license in 2011.
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