Scholars like Amy Back and Radley Balko have spent years chronicling prosecutorial misconduct — ranging from withholding evidence to faking evidence to coercing confessions — around the country. Now it appears that Michigan may have its own example — and this one involves sex. The Grand Rapids Press reports:

A deputy city attorney, who is being investigated for reducing a woman’s drunken driving offense in exchange for sex inside a jury room, has been fired, City Attorney Andrew Mulder said.

Carl Gabrielse, 30, was terminated Friday from the Holland law firm, Cunningham Dalman, a day after it was notified of a probe by Holland police and Ottawa County sheriff’s detectives into the alleged misconduct.

Gabrielse, who could not be reached for comment, has not been arrested or charged with a crime.

A source close to the investigation told The Press that Gabrielse met with the woman defendant at a pre-trial conference and that she had sex with him as part of a plea deal.

Gabrielse, the source said, had told the woman he would reduce her charge to impaired driving from drunken driving.

The next day she reported the incident to police and then met with Gabrielse again while wearing a wire that recorded evidence of the incident, the source said.

That’s not gonna look good on a resume.