Case ID: ad_222/html/0269-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Dowling, P. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

In the Matter of Maurice Bernikow, an Attorney, Respondent.
    First Department,
    January 13, 1928.
    Attorney and client — disciplinary proceedings — attorney disbarred following conviction of felony.
    Respondent, an attorney, is disbarred, following his conviction of forgery in the second degree upon bis plea of guilty, for which felony he has been sentenced to imprisonment in State prison.
    Disciplinary proceedings brought by the Association of the Bar of the City of New York.
    
      Einar Chrystie, for the petitioner.
   Dowling, P. J.

The respondent was admitted to the bar in September, 1919, in the New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Second Department.

On November 2, 1927, respondent pleaded guilty to the crime of forgery in the second degree (which crime is a felony) in the Court of General Sessions of the County of New York, and was sentenced to imprisonment in State prison for a term the minimum of which was two years and six months, and the maximum ten years.

Under the provisions of section 88, subdivision 3, of the Judiciary Law, an exemplified copy of such judgment of conviction of said respondent having been presented to this court, his name is hereby ordered to be stricken from the roll of attorneys and he should be disbarred. (See Judiciary Law, §§ 477, 478.)

Finch, McAvoy, Martin and O'Malley, JJ., concur.

Respondent disbarred.