A lawyer says she stole $300,000 from a client, only to lose it all in an e-mail scam.

Knovack Jones, a former prosecutor and lawyer for almost 25 years has pleaded guilty to stealing the estate of Pauline English, worth nearly $400,000.

Jones was disbarred, but says about $300,000 of the money is gone, after losing it to a variation on the Nigerian e-mail scams.

Jones tells the court, "I'm here to humbly ask the court's mercy."

According to Jones, a Nigerian doctor contacted her in 2001, "He had a contract with the government of $38.6 million, and he needed my participation... I was not thinking clearly."

Now, Prosecutor Gail Levine says the State wants her in jail for nine years, explaining, "How she spent it -- if she spent it partially on herself and partially on her family, if she spent it all on herself, if she chose to go to Las Vegas and gamble it for $12 million -- it really isn't relevant."