Title: Board of Attorneys Professional Responsibility v. Daniel J. Kanera

State: wisconsin

Issuer: Wisconsin Supreme Court

Document:

SUPREME COURT OF WISCONSIN 
 
 
Case No.: 
99-0969-D 
 
 
Complete Title 
of Case: 
 
 
In the Matter of Disciplinary Proceedings 
Against Daniel J. Kanera, Attorney at Law. 
 
Board of Attorneys Professional  
Responsibility,  
 
Complainant, 
 
v. 
Daniel J. Kanera,  
 
Respondent.  
 
DISCIPLINARY PROCEEDINGS AGAINST KANERA 
 
 
Opinion Filed: 
May 14, 1999 
Submitted on Briefs: 
 
Oral Argument: 
 
 
 
Source of APPEAL 
 
COURT: 
 
 
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JUDGE: 
 
 
 
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ATTORNEYS: 
 
 
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NOTICE 
This opinion is subject to further editing and 
modification.  The final version will appear in 
the bound volume of the official reports. 
 
 
No. 99-0969-D 
 
STATE OF WISCONSIN               :        
        
 
 
 
 
IN SUPREME COURT 
 
 
In the Matter of Disciplinary Proceedings 
Against Daniel J. Kanera, Attorney at Law. 
Board of Attorneys Professional 
Responsibility,  
 
 
Complainant, 
 
v.  
Daniel J. Kanera,  
 
 
Respondent. 
FILED 
 
MAY 14, 1999 
 
Marilyn L. Graves 
Clerk of Supreme Court 
Madison, WI 
 
 
 
ATTORNEY 
disciplinary 
proceeding.  Attorney’s 
license 
suspended.  
¶1 
PER 
CURIAM   The 
Board 
of 
Attorneys 
Professional 
Responsibility (Board) and Attorney Daniel J. Kanera filed a 
stipulation April 13, 1999, pursuant to SCR 21.09(3m)1 concerning 
                     
1   SCR 21.09 provides, in pertinent part: Procedure. 
 . . .  
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Attorney 
Kanera’s 
felony 
conviction 
of 
manufacturing 
a 
controlled substance. The parties stipulated that the conduct 
for which Attorney Kanera was convicted constitutes a criminal 
act that reflects adversely on his honesty, trustworthiness or 
fitness as a lawyer in other respects, in violation of SCR 
20:8.4(b),2 and that the suspension of his license to practice 
law for one year is appropriate discipline to impose for that 
misconduct.  
¶2 
We approve the stipulation of the parties, adopt the 
facts and conclusions of law set forth in it, and impose the 
one-year license suspension to which they stipulated. Attorney 
Kanera was admitted to practice law in Wisconsin in January 
1970, has an office address at his residence in Two Rivers, and 
                                                                  
(3m) The board may file with a complaint a stipulation by 
the board and the respondent attorney to the facts, conclusions 
of law and discipline to be imposed. The supreme court may 
consider the complaint and stipulation without appointing a 
referee. If the supreme court approves the stipulation, it shall 
adopt the stipulated facts and conclusions of law and impose the 
stipulated 
discipline. 
If 
the 
supreme 
court 
rejects 
the 
stipulation, a referee shall be appointed pursuant to sub. (4) 
and the matter shall proceed pursuant to SCR chapter 22. A 
stipulation that is rejected has no evidentiary value and is 
without prejudice to the respondent’s defense of the proceeding 
or the board’s prosecution of the complaint.  
2  SCR 20:8.4 provides, in pertinent part: Misconduct 
It is professional misconduct for a lawyer to:  
 . . .  
(b) commit a criminal act that reflects adversely on the 
lawyer’s honesty, trustworthiness or fitness as a lawyer in 
other respects;   
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has 
not 
previously 
been 
the 
subject 
of 
a 
disciplinary 
proceeding.  
¶3 
Attorney Kanera was convicted January 8, 1999, in the 
circuit court for Manitowoc county on his no contest plea to the 
charge of felony manufacture of THC after the discovery of what 
appeared to be 11 marijuana plants growing on his land. 
Following conviction, sentence was withheld, and he was placed 
on 18 months’ probation, with 45 days to be spent in jail 
between the hours of his employment, directed to have an alcohol 
and other drug abuse assessment and follow through and submit to 
random urine screens, and ordered to pay a fine and costs 
totaling $5000. In addition, his motor vehicle operating 
privileges were suspended for six months.  
¶4 
IT IS ORDERED that the license of Daniel J. Kanera to 
practice law in Wisconsin is suspended for one year, effective 
the 
date 
of 
this 
order, 
as 
discipline 
for 
professional 
misconduct.  
¶5 
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that Daniel J. Kanera comply 
with the provisions of SCR 22.26 concerning the duties of a 
person whose license to practice law in Wisconsin has been 
suspended.  
 
 
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