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11:51 AM CDT on Tuesday, September 30, 2003


Associated Press


HOUSTON - A Houston attorney who appeared in court last week
to represent a client has found himself in need of legal
representation.


Stanley Duane Wilkinson, 53, has been charged with possession
of a controlled substance after a bailiff said he saw a small
plastic bag containing what turned out to be cocaine residue
fall from the lawyer's jacket pocket, the Houston Chronicle
reported in Tuesday's editions.


Wilkinson was in state District Judge Mark Ellis' courtroom
where he was representing a client who planned to enter a
guilty plea, according to a criminal complaint. Ellis' staff
has said the judge will recuse himself from that case.


After the bag allegedly dropped from Wilkinson's pocket,
bailiff P. Halfin approached the attorney and told him he
thought the attorney had dropped the bag, the newspaper
reported. Wilkinson said the bag was not his and he did not
drop it.


The white powdery residue in the bag tested positive as
cocaine, the criminal complaint states.


Wilkinson was freed on $2,000 bond. He did not immediately
return a phone message left by The Associated Press on
Tuesday.

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