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653 A.2d 625
    OFFICE OF DISCIPLINARY COUNSEL, Petitioner, v. Paul L. PATCHEL, Respondent.
    Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.
    Argued Oct. 19, 1994.
    Decided Jan. 23, 1995.
    
      Samuel C. Stretton, Philadelphia, for respondent.
    Alan J. Davis, Philadelphia, for Office of Disc. Counsel.
    Before NIX, C.J., and FLAHERTY, ZAPPALA, PAPADAKOS, CAPPY, CASTILLE and MONTEMURO, JJ.
   ORDER

PER CURIAM:

Rule to Show Cause entered by this Court on April 12,1994, is discharged. It is ORDERED that respondent be and he is suspended from the Bar of this Commonwealth for a period of four years, effective as of the date hereof, and he shall comply with all the provisions of Rule 217, Pa.R.D.E. It is further ORDERED that respondent shall pay costs to the Disciplinary Board pursuant to Rule 208(g), Pa.R.D.E.

PAPADAKOS and CASTILLE, JJ., dissent and would enter an order disbarring respondent.

MONTEMURO, J., is sitting by designation.