When Miami police busted University of Miami law professor Donald Marvin Jones for soliciting street sex from an undercover cop on Sept. 26, it wasn’t the first time.
Jones, 59, was arrested on Aug. 22, 2007, in Miami’s Little River neighborhood, for offering $20 to an officer posing as a prostitute. Charges were dropped and the record expunged.
That time, he was driving a 2004 Mercedes-Benz. This time, police say, he was driving a 2008 Benz in the 7700 block of Northeast First Avenue, when he offered the officer $20 for oral sex.
The specific charge: soliciting to commit prostitution.
A message left on Jones’s UM office voice mail wasn’t returned Saturday. His outgoing message says: “I’m probably away working on my book very hard.”
He didn’t answer an email request for comment.
His UM website bio says he joined the faculty in 1988, teaches Constitutional Law, Criminal Procedure, and Employment Discrimination, has written commentaries for The Miami Herald and The Miami Times, and has appeared on national television programs.
In 2003, the Miami-Dade County Commission hired Jones to draft the county’s affirmative action plan.
On Friday, the law school issued a statement saying: “It should be noted that Professor Jones has never been convicted of any previous crime. It is our policy not to comment on personnel matters.”
