Kent Wycliffe Easter Escapes Cuffs (for Now) for Planting Drugs in School Volunteer's Car

Kent Wycliffe Easter Escapes Cuffs (for Now) for Planting Drugs in School Volunteer's Car By Matt Coker Wed., Sep. 10 2014 at 6:02 PM 4 Comments Categories: Breaking News, Court, Crime-iny, School Daze See the update on Page 2 with sentencing details and more from the trial. Thumbnail image for Kent-Wycliffe-Easter_ocda.jpg Courtesy of the Orange County District Attorney's office Life just got sadder for Kent Wycliffe Easter, the cuckold attorney. ORIGINAL POST, SEPT. 10, 3:48 P.M.: The second time was a charm for prosecutors as a jury this afternoon found Kent Wycliffe Easter guilty in his retrial for planting drugs in the PT Cruiser of a school volunteer the Irvine attorney's wife thought had insulted their then-5-year-old son. Kent Wycliffe Easter's Monumental Drug Planting Retrial: Now with More Bombshells! Easter was convicted of false imprisonment by fraud and deceit. Jurors in his first trial had deadlocked 11-1 in favor of guilt on that same felony count. Jillianne "Jill" Bjorkholm Easter went to pick her son up at Plaza Vista School in Irvine in February 2010 but discovered he was not with the normal group of students lined up waiting for parents. She became enraged when school volunteer Kelli Peters referred to the Easter boy as having been "slow"; she meant he was slow to catch up with the other kids being picked up, but Jill Easter took it as a slur against her prodigal son's intelligence. The Easters filed a civil suit against Peters that a judge tossed. Next the scheme was cooked up to plant marijuana, a pipe, Vicodin and Percocet in Peters' PT Cruiser on Feb. 16, 2011. Kent Easter would call Irvine cops from the Island Hotel, which was next to his Newport Center office at the Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth law firm. On the eve of Kent Easter's first trial in November, Jill pleaded guilty to falsely imprisoning Peters and was sentenced to 120 days in jail and 100 hours of community service, a punishment she completed earlier this year. Her law license was suspended in March. Kent Easter's defense is he did not know his wife had planted the ripping party bag in Peters' car when he called cops with an Indian accent and under the name of neighbor, claiming to have seen Peters popping pills and driving erratically in her PT Cruiser before parking it at the school, which is where the volunteer was confronted by Irvine Police. He claimed through his defense that he made the call for his wife to please her, thinking it might save their marriage as she was off having an affair with an Orange County firefighter. The defense maintains the bizarre episode led to the couple's separation. But prosecutors convinced jurors there was an abundance of evidence to show the couple cooked up the plan to plant the drugs and that Kent indeed did the dirty deed. Check back for details on Kent Easter's sentencing.