Ohio Supreme Court pulls Westlake lawyers license after finding he groped 18-year-old after giving her alcohol [Video]

CLEVELAND, Ohio — A Westlake attorney who pleaded guilty to assaulting an 18-year-old woman after giving her and two other young women alcohol in his home had his law license suspended on Thursday.

The Ohio Supreme Court voted to pull Daniel Perrico’s law license for two years. It decided to reduce the suspension by a year as long as he avoids more improper conduct.

The unsigned majority opinion noted that Perrico was initially charged with sexual imposition, a third-degree misdemeanor. However, prosecutors in Stow Municipal Court allowed Perrico to plead guilty to a first-degree misdemeanor assault charge and two counts of furnishing alcohol to a minor. The plea allowed Perrico to avoid being labeled as a sex offender and get his conviction sealed, which he did shortly after he completed probation, the court noted.

The justices wrote that the facts and testimony heard during Perrico’s disciplinary hearing before the court’s …