NEW ORLEANS (Louisiana Record) – Former Shreveport City Prosecutor Andrew T. Adams, who was fired last year after he allegedly solicited sex from a prostitute, has been voluntarily and indefinitely suspended following an Oct. 29 Louisiana Supreme Court order.
The high court granted a joint petition for interim suspension agreed to by Adams and the office of disciplinary counsel, according to the court's single-page order. Adams' suspension was effective immediately, according to the order.
Adams was admitted to the bar in Louisiana on Dec. 1, 2016, according to his profile at the Louisiana State Bar Association's website. No prior discipline in Louisiana was listed on his state bar profile.
The order did not detail the reasons for Adams' decision to agree to the interim suspension but his petition comes less than a year after he was fired from his city prosecutor job on the heels of criminal allegations against him. Adams, then 29, was arrested and booked into Caddo Correctional Center on Dec. 20 on charges that included using his position as a city prosecutor to solicit sex from a prostitute in exchange for his influence in a city court case, according to a Shreveport Police Department press release issued at the time. Allegations against Adams followed an investigation by the city police department's vice unit.
"Base on information obtained in the on-going investigation, authorities developed evidence that 29-year-old Andrew Adams ... was involved in the illegal solicitation of prostitution," the press release said.
Adams was charged with soliciting prostitution, abuse of power and malfeasance of office, according to the press release. Bond was set at $30,700.
Adams was fired the following day, according to a local news report. Adams had been employed by the city to prosecute misdemeanor traffic and criminal cases, according to that news report.