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In the Matter of Keven A. MCKENNA.
    No. 2016-75-M.P.
    Supreme Court of Rhode Island.
    June 16, 2016.
    Keven A. McKenna, Pro Se.
    David D. Curtin, Esq., for Office of Disciplinary Counsel.
   ORDER

This matter is before the Court pursuant to a petition for reinstatement filed by Keven A. McKenna (petitioner). On February 27, 2015, this Court issued its opinion suspending the petitioner from the practice of law in this state for a period of one year, commencing March 29, 2015. Our opinion also provided that at the conclusion of that one-year period of suspension “the respondent must apply to this Court for reinstatement pursuant to Article III, Rule 16 of the Supreme Court Rules of Disciplinary Procedure.” In re McKenna, 110 A.3d 1126, 1151 (R.I.2015).

On March 23, 2016, the petitioner filed his reinstatement petition. However, the petitioner has not met all of the requirements for reinstatement set forth in Article III of the Supreme Court Rules. Accordingly, his petition is not ripe for review by this Court.

We also note that there are several disciplinary matters currently pending before the Supreme Court Disciplinary Board regarding conduct of the petitioner that occurred both before and after our order of suspension. Pursuant to Rule 16(c), on a petition for reinstatement the petitioner “shall have the burden of demonstrating by clear and convincing evidence that he or she has the moral qualifications, competency and learning in law required for admission to practice law in this State and that his or her resumption of the practice of law within the State will be neither detrimental to the integrity and standing of the Bar or the administration of justice nor subversive of the public interest.” Those pending matters must be brought to a conclusion prior to our consideration of this reinstatement petition.

Furthermore, we note that on March 6, 2015, a justice of the Superior Court issued sanctions against the petitioner pursuant to Rule 11 of the Superior Court Rules of Civil Procedure in a number of different cases based, in part, upon findings that the petitioner made misrepresentations to the court. The total amount of the sanctions imposed is $19,267.06. The petitioner filed an appeal in only one of those cases in which the sanction was $1,000. We affirmed that sanctions’ order when that appeal was before us. Wells v. Blanchard, 140 A.3d 151 (R.I.2016). The petitioner did not appeal from the remaining sanction orders, and they have become final orders of the court. The sanctions remain unsatisfied.

Based upon all of these reasons the petition for reinstatement is denied.

Chief Justice SUTTELL did not participate.