A Year Ago This Month: Lecherous Lawyer Convicted in Scandal w. 12-Year-Old!

On February 7, 2011, a jury in New Braunfels, Texas, sentenced local attorney Mark A. Clark to seven years in prison for trying to induce a 12-year-old girl to pose for him in sexy clothing at his office the previous summer. A search of the office by police revealed a hidden stash of items that included more hard lemonade and some vodka, champagne glasses, a breast pump with hoses, condoms, cell phones, KY Jelly, a sex toy, a box of feminine douches, corsets, fishnet stockings, lacy underwear, and bikinis.

Following his conviction, the Texas State Bar Association also took action against Clark and, on February 23, suspended him and ordered that he contact all of his current clients to inform them of his conviction and return any payments for services not yet rendered. As a result, he will likely never again be allowed to practice law in Texas.

Read more about Clark in "Mark of Shame," one of the chapters in the "Sex" section of Texas Confidential: Sex, Scandal, Murder, and Mayhem in the Lone Star State! Also, in the "small world" category, Clark was the defense attorney for convicted murderess Janice Vickers, who brutally killed an 83-year-old woman in November 2006.