I'm trying to find a copy of the plea agreement. It doesn't look like it was publicly filed.
Defendants are free, I suppose, to contradict or outright deny their plea agreements to the public. Everyone in prison is innocent, and most of them are there by plea.
It doesn't affect anything with the court or the plea itself. although, if she insists it was coerced, a court could drag her back in, rehear that, and revoke the plea.
What I did find, however, is something that will make you very happy I think.
And that is that the first thing she pled to is "conspiracy to commit theft by taking."
And the Georgia Criminal Code provides
§ 16-8-2. Theft by Taking
Universal Citation: GA Code § 16-8-2 (2020)
A person commits the offense of theft by taking when he unlawfully takes or, being in lawful possession thereof, unlawfully appropriates any property of another with the intention of depriving him of the property, regardless of the manner in which the property is taken or appropriated.
The Texas Disciplinary Rules of Procedure provide, in the definitions section:
GG. “Serious Crime” means barratry; any felony involving moral turpitude; any misdemeanor involving theft, embezzlement, or fraudulent or reckless misappropriation of money or other property; or any attempt, conspiracy, or solicitation of another to commit any of the foregoing crimes.
and
V. “Intentional Crime” means (1) any Serious Crime that requires proof of knowledge or intent as an essential element or (2) any crime involving misapplication of money or other property held as a fiduciary.
And, finally:
8.05. Disbarment: When an attorney has been convicted of an Intentional Crime, and that conviction has become final, or the attorney has accepted probation with or without an adjudication of guilt for an Intentional Crime, the attorney shall be disbarred . . . .
So, ol Sid seems pretty highly likely, almost dead certain in fact, to lose her Texas law license notwithstanding what happens relative to the Kraken suits.
The "felony of moral turpitude" out that I discussed earlier has no application here. And, I have personal knowledge that the Bar lawyers that handle this stuff are familiar, fully competent, and pretty fucking fierce at handling this type of thing, known as "compulsory discipline." Plus, the only thing they have to prove is the conviction itself.
Legal reporting is shitty, because no one mentioned that one of the misdemeanors was theft.