Case Title: Office of Lawyer Regulation v. Rodney T. Carroll

Citation: 2007 WI 8

Docket Number: 2004AP002055-D

State: wisconsin

Court: Wisconsin Supreme Court

Date: 2007-01-23T00:00:00Z

Document:
2007 WI 8 
 
SUPREME COURT OF WISCONSIN 
 
 
 
 
 
CASE NO.: 
2004AP2055-D 
 
 
COMPLETE TITLE: 
 
 
In the Matter of Disciplinary Proceedings 
Against Rodney T. Carroll, Attorney at Law: 
 
 
Office of Lawyer Regulation, 
          Complainant, 
     v. 
Rodney T. Carroll, 
          Respondent. 
 
 
 
 
DISCIPLINARY PROCEEDINGS AGAINST CARROLL 
 
 
OPINION FILED: 
January 23, 2007   
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2007 WI 8
NOTICE 
This opinion is subject to further 
editing and modification.  The final 
version will appear in the bound 
volume of the official reports.   
No.  2004AP2055-D  
 
 
STATE OF WISCONSIN  
 
 
   : 
IN SUPREME COURT 
 
 
In the Matter of Disciplinary Proceedings 
Against Rodney T. Carroll, Attorney at Law: 
 
Office of Lawyer Regulation, 
 
          Complainant, 
 
     v. 
 
Rodney T. Carroll, 
 
          Respondent. 
 
FILED 
JAN 23, 2007 
 
A. John Voelker 
Acting Clerk of Supreme 
Court 
 
 
 
 
 
ATTORNEY disciplinary proceeding.    Attorney's license 
revoked.   
 
¶1 
PER CURIAM.   This is a reciprocal discipline matter.  
Attorney Rodney T. Carroll became licensed to practice law in 
Iowa in 1999 and was admitted to practice law in Wisconsin in 
2000.  On August 2, 2004, the Office of Lawyer Regulation (OLR) 
filed a disciplinary complaint against Attorney Carroll asking 
this court to impose reciprocal discipline identical to that 
imposed on Attorney Carroll by the Supreme Court of Iowa.  That 
court temporarily suspended Attorney Carroll's Iowa law license 
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on April 30, 2004.  The temporary suspension in Iowa resulted 
from Attorney Carroll's conviction for second-degree felony 
theft and his fraudulent conversion of funds belonging to the 
Dubuque (Iowa) Arts Council.   
¶2 
On October 19, 2004, pursuant to SCR 22.20, this court 
summarily suspended Attorney Carroll's license to practice law 
in Wisconsin due to his criminal conviction.  Attorney Carroll's 
Wisconsin license has remained suspended through the date of 
this order. 
¶3 
On September 22, 2006, the Supreme Court of Iowa 
issued an order revoking Attorney Carroll's license to practice 
law in Iowa.  The Supreme Court of Iowa concluded that by 
converting funds belonging to the Dubuque Arts Council, Attorney 
Carroll had violated DR 1-102(A)(3),(4) & (6) of the Iowa Code 
of Professional Responsibility for lawyers.  The court also 
stated that Attorney Carroll's felony conviction violated DR 1-
102(A)(5), 
which 
prohibits 
conduct 
prejudicial 
to 
the 
administration of justice.  It concluded that the serious and 
multiple nature of Attorney Carroll's conversion of funds 
required the revocation of his license to practice law in Iowa. 
¶4 
On October 12, 2006, this court issued an order to 
show cause directing Attorney Carroll to show cause in writing 
by November 1, 2006, why the imposition of reciprocal discipline 
identical to that imposed by the Supreme Court of Iowa would be 
unwarranted and why the costs of this disciplinary proceeding 
should not be imposed against him.  Attorney Carroll failed to 
respond to the order to show cause. 
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¶5 
On 
November 
16, 
2006, 
the 
OLR 
filed 
a 
report 
indicating that the costs of the proceeding to date were 
$1121.98.  Attorney Carroll has not objected to the OLR's 
statement of costs. 
¶6 
SCR 22.22(3) provides that this court "shall impose 
the identical discipline or license suspension unless . . . 
[t]he procedure in the other jurisdiction was so lacking in 
notice or opportunity to be heard as to constitute a deprivation 
of due process" violation; "[t]here was such an infirmity of 
proof establishing the misconduct . . . that [this court] could 
not accept as final" the other jurisdiction's misconduct 
finding; or "[t]he misconduct justifies substantially different 
discipline" here.  Neither the OLR nor Attorney Carroll 
contends, nor does this court find, that any of these three 
exceptions exist in this case.  Accordingly, the imposition of 
reciprocal discipline identical to that imposed by the Supreme 
Court of Iowa is required. 
¶7 
IT IS ORDERED that the license of Rodney T. Carroll to 
practice law in Wisconsin is revoked, effective the date of this 
order. 
¶8 
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that within 60 days of the date 
of this order Attorney Carroll shall pay to the Office of Lawyer 
Regulation the costs of this proceeding. 
¶9 
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that Attorney Carroll shall 
comply, if he has not already done so, with the requirements of 
SCR 22.26 pertaining to the duties of a person whose license to 
practice law in Wisconsin has been revoked. 
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