FloriDUH: A lawyer’s unrequited love — bar none

The jail staff sensed there was something going on between the lawyer and the inmate whom he represented in a drunken driving case. One tipoff was the novice public defender’s frequent visits to the Lee County jail to see this inmate. The jail staff also discovered the assistant public defender, Nirav Mahendra Jamindar, then 27, using a fake name, had penned a gushy romantic postcard to the female inmate. Jamindar had even deposited $400 in the inmate’s jail account, reports the Naples Daily News . Jamindar scrawled on a postcard to the inmate, Ashley Wight, that he couldn’t wait for Wight to be released so they could live together. He also couldn’t wait to cuddle her, wake up to her “sparkling face” and make her the “happiest woman on earth.” He hoped she’d text him “dirty messages so I laugh in the middle of court (ha, ha, ha),” reports the Naples Daily News. “You are lucky because you are the only girl who gets to see her boyfriend while she is at the Hilton (ha, ha, ha),” he wrote, referring the jail. Wight, 37, says “He had a crush on me.” She asked jail guards to stop him from visiting. “There was no romance whatsoever. She said his feelings toward her

were not reciprocated at all and she wasn’t “the only inmate he had a crush on,” reports the Naples Daily News. The only time he acted inappropriately, according to Wright, was when he told her he was a virgin — and she let him know that was inappropriate, reports the Naples Daily News. She was upset to hear the postcard, which she never saw, called her sexy, beautiful and a perfect woman. “How can anyone be sexy in a black and white jail uniform?” she asked. “Tell me there’s not something wrong with him. What attorney falls for an inmate? It’s making my skin crawl,” she said according to court documents, reports the Naples Daily News. As a result of Jamindar’s misconduct, outlined in state Supreme Court documents, he was forced to resign from the Public Defender’s Office in 2009, just months after he’d been admitted to the bar. And now the Supreme Court of Florida has publicly reprimanded Jamindar, who works for Musca Law in Naples, for violating bar rules, reports the Naples Daily News. The court accepted his plea on July 14, and it was made public Tuesday Photo: Naples Daily News More FloriDUH .

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