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BALTIMORE---A Baltimore attorney, on maternity leave from her law firm where she specializes in injury cases, was shocked earlier this month when she received a letter advising her she had been banned from a state prison for having sex with an inmate.
But it wasn't the attorney at all who had engaged in sex acts with inmate Jason Moody, serving 30 years for manslaughter. It was a woman impersonating the attorney.
Had the letter been true, it could have constituted grounds for the attorney's disbarment.
Tiffany Gwen Weaver, 29, has been charged with forging documents and claiming to be an attorney so that she could visit the inmate in a private visiting room. When corrections officers monitoring the visit witnessed the sexual relations between Weaver and Moody, they ended the visit.
Officials said that Weaver had produced a security pass from the Maryland Bar Association with a photo which identified her as attorney Amanda Sprehn, 28, and she produced a business card for Sprehn and her law firm.
But Sprehn says that Moody isn't her client and she has no idea how Weaver chose her identity as they don't know each other. The business card and security pass were phony.
Upon investigation, state officials learned that Sprehn was out on leave and on the day in question, had an alibi.
Weaver faces up to 10 years in prison for charges of forgery, fraud and false use of government identification. 12-27-06
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