Offers You Can’t Refuse – When Aggressive Demand Letters Cross the Legal Line

In 2001, San Antonio attorney Mary Roberts had sex with four married men after she learned that her lawyer husband, Ted Roberts, had been unfaithful with her.

The couple later reconciled and Mr. Roberts proceeded to send demand letters to the four paramours —a lawyer, an accountant, and two chief financial officers—threatening to file petitions for rule 202 pre-suit depositions about their sex with his wife. Or, if they preferred, they could avoid the depositions and the resulting public record by “making him whole