A former Addleshaw Goddard and Simpson Grierson lawyer has been convicted of possessing crystal meth.

IT lawyer Marc Cropper worked in Addleshaw's London office for five years before rejoining Simpson Grier in 2013 in his native New Zealand. In a press release that the firm published to announce his return, Cropper said "I loved working and living in London and all the opportunities and travel it entails, but you really can't beat day to day life here". Particularly not when you're hooked on Crystal meth, and you discover that your neighbour on home detention is the local Walter White.





Cropper before he came a cropper 

 

The lawyer became acquainted with his drug-dealing neighbour, and soon the pair were regularly texting to arrange for Cropper to get his fix of Class A drugs. However Cropper's habit came to light when police were granted with a warrant to intercept electronic messages as part of a drug sting. Cropper was duly busted and pleaded guilty last year to possession of between 2.5g to 4.5g of crystal meth, or in street terms, a sh*tload.

Cropper recently appeared before the Auckland District Court where his lawyer argued that a conviction would be an "insurmountable" hurdle to gain new employment. Cropper penned a letter to the court with a sweeping apology.

Judge Ryan accepted that Cropper was "clearly remorseful". However the judge went on to say that meth is a "scourge on our community" and that a conviction was necessary for such a crime. Cropper has been sentenced to nine-months supervision and fined $100.
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Comments

Anonymous 06 May 16 09:19

Dear Moron
why don't you try thinking for a change? put simply, we all use "drugs" and the debate is about how we regulate that use - has prohibition ever worked? practically prohibition has always failed and in principle why shouldn't people us drugs recklessly and f*** up their lives if they want to? better that they are taxed sufficiently to pay for the cost to the rest of us. In this particular case it may well be that he'd never have got involved if this particular drug was legal and regulated, who knows, but the situation would have been an improvement on the current clusterf*** created by the moralistic hard of thinking. fortunately a consensus seems to be emerging that recognises that prohibition has failed.
Regards
A.Prick

Roll On Friday 06 May 16 09:53

So... we legals can get in trouble for this, and our communications might be being intercepted.
OK.
Good to know.
In unrelated news, anyone want to buy 3.2g of... um... special rock salt? Need to get rid pronto. Ta.

Anonymous 06 May 16 13:50

Was there no scope to argue that his dealer was his client and the communications privileged?

Anonymous 08 May 16 12:03

That's a debate? I just see a junkie whinging about how it should be easier to get a fix.

Anonymous 09 May 16 13:17

It is plain common sense that all narcotics should immediately be legalised. To dispute this is cretinous.

Anonymous 11 May 16 14:59

2.5g to 4.5g is not a lot of meth. He could probably burn through that and have a very productive day.