State v. Brandt

After Donald M. Brandt produced a fraudulent document in a civil proceeding, a circuit court held Brandt in civil and criminal contempt. In turn, the court dismissed Brandt’s legal malpractice action with prejudice and ordered him to serve six months in jail and pay the defendants’ attorneys’ fees and costs in the amount of $883,621.93.

Subsequently, based on the fraudulent document, the State indicted Brandt for forgery in an amount greater than $5,000. 1 After a jury found Brandt guilty of the indicted offense, the trial judge sentenced Brandt to ten years’ imprisonment, suspended upon the…