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Nashville Lawyer Suspended After Posting Advice on How to Make Murder Look Like Self-Defense

By on January 24, 2021 in Criminal Law

“The Tennessee Supreme Court suspended the license of a Nashville attorney after discovering he posted advice on Facebook about how to make deadly force look like self-defense,” reports Brinley Hineman in Tennessean’s News.

“After a woman made a post on Facebook in 2017 seeking advice on how to handle possible abuse or harassment by an ex-partner, attorney Winston B. Sitton encouraged her to ‘lure’ the man into her home and shoot him. He advised her to claim the man broke in with a plan to harm her.”

“He later posted that the woman should delete her post if she was serious.”

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