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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

THE FLORIDA BAR, Complainant, v. Monte K. RASSNER, Respondent.
    No. 32990.
    Supreme Court of Florida.
    Feb. 19, 1964.
    Michael Shores, Miami, for The Florida Bar, complainant.
    Jacob Rassner, New York City, for respondent.
   PER CURIAM.

We have decided, however, that the suspension from the practice of law for a period of three years, recommended by the Board of Governors, is too severe under all the facts and circumstances. Consequently we substitute our judgment in place of the order of suspension of the Board of Governors. It is accordingly

Ordered and adjudged that respondent be suspended from the practice of law in Florida for a period of six months and that he pay the costs of proceedings in the amount of Three Hundred Thirty-Two Dollars and sixty-nine cents ($332.69).

It is further ordered that he remain suspended at the expiration of the six-months’ period until he has satisfactorily demonstrated that he is entitled to reinstatement.

It is so ordered.

DREW, C. J., and THOMAS, ROBERTS and HOBSON (Ret.), JJ., concur.

THORNAL, CALDWELL and O’CON-NELL, JJ., dissent in part.

THORNAL, Justice

(dissenting in part).

I think the respondent should be suspended for at least one year and thereafter until he pays the costs and establishes his entitlement to re-instatement. In addition to the misprisions here established, this record reveals that the respondent had numerous other brushes with the grievance committee. It is time that he learns that the law is something other than a commercial enterprise.

CALDWELL and O’CONNELL, JJ., concur.