Adelaide defence lawyer Andrew Robert Graham facing serious charges after alleged cocaine bust in nightclub
Up-and-coming criminal lawyer Andrew Graham, who last week represented a notorious bikie in court, is facing serious charges following an alleged drug bust in an Adelaide nightclub.
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An Adelaide criminal lawyer is facing serious drug and witness inducement charges following an incident in a city nightclub.
Police allege Andrew Robert Graham, 36, supplied cocaine to others and consumed it himself at a nightclub while under surveillance by a security guard.
When confronted, Graham allegedly attempted to persuade the security guard not to take any action over the incident – and is also facing a charge over that alleged conduct.
Graham, of Vale Park, is facing four charges over the incident that occurred on August 18 last year – two of them major indictable charges that carry significant prison sentences.
They are supplying a controlled drug other than cannabis to another person; and offering or agreeing to give benefit “as a reward or inducement” to an individual who “was or may be required to be a witness in judicial proceedings, to withhold evidence or give false evidence at the proceedings’’.
The two minor indictable charges are remaining on a licensed premises while in possession of a controlled drug not contained in packaging with a prescribed label, and consuming a controlled drug other than cannabis.
Graham last Friday represented Rebels bikie Bradley Daniele in Adelaide Magistrates Court in the case in which Daniele pleaded guilty to assaulting a child sex offender in the cells of the City Watchhouse.
Graham did not respond when approached for comment on the matter through his lawyer Craig Caldicott.
Besides the criminal proceedings, Graham’s alleged conduct is likely to be investigated by Legal Profession Conduct Commissioner Greg May.
Law Society of SA president Tim White said the society was bound to report to Mr May “any matter that comes to its attention where there is reasonable suspicion that a practitioner’s actions amounted to unsatisfactory professional conduct or professional misconduct’’.
“Under the Legal Practitioners Act, a legal practitioner convicted of an indictable offence would trigger a show cause event, where a practitioner would have to make an application to the Supreme Court to keep their practising certificate, and the court has the power to modify or suspend the applicant’s practising certificate, or strike the applicant off the roll of practitioners,’’ he said.
“The Supreme Court can also order interim measures, such as a suspension or restriction of a practising certificate, if a practitioner has been charged with a criminal offence.
“As this is a matter currently before court and no finding of guilt or otherwise has yet been made, it would be inappropriate to comment further.”
Graham will next appear in Adelaide Magistrates Court on February 27.