Title: BOARD OF PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY, WYOMING STATE BAR v. DON FRANKLIN SHREVE, JR.

State: wyoming

Issuer: Wyoming Supreme Court

Document:

BOARD OF PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY, WYOMING STATE BAR v. DON FRANKLIN SHREVE, JR.2012 WY 11Case Number: No. D-12-0001Decided: 02/01/2012
October 
Term, A.D. 2011

 
BOARD 
OF PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY, WYOMING STATE BAR,Petitioner,v.DON FRANKLIN SHREVE, 
JR.,Respondent.
 
 
Order of 
Interim Suspension
 
[¶1]     Pursuant to 
Section 17 of the Disciplinary Code for 
the Wyoming State Bar, Bar Counsel for the Wyoming State Bar filed, on January 
12, 2012, a “Petition for Interim Suspension of Attorney.”  The Court, after a careful review of the 
Petition for Interim Suspension, the affidavit of Bar Counsel, and the other 
materials attached to the petition, concludes that the petition for interim 
suspension should be granted and that Respondent should be suspended from the 
practice of law pending resolution of the formal charge that has been, or will 
be, filed against Respondent.  See 
Section 17(c) (“Within fifteen (15) days of the entry of an order of interim 
suspension, Bar Counsel shall file a formal charge.”)  It is, therefore, 
 
[¶2]     ADJUDGED AND 
ORDERED that, effective February 10, 
2012, the Respondent, Don Franklin Shreve, Jr., shall be, and hereby is, 
suspended from the practice of law, pending final resolution of the formal 
charge that has been, or will be, filed against him; and it is 
further
 
[¶3]     
ORDERED that, during the 
period of interim suspension, Respondent shall comply with the requirements of 
the Disciplinary Code for the Wyoming State Bar, particularly the requirements 
found in Section 22 of that code; and it is further
 
[¶4]     ORDERED that, pursuant to Section 4(c) 
of the Disciplinary Code for the Wyoming State Bar, this Order of Interim 
Suspension shall be published in the Pacific Reporter; and it is further
 
[¶5]     ORDERED that the 
Clerk of this Court shall transmit a copy of this Order of Interim Suspension to 
the Respondent, Bar Counsel, members of the Board of Professional 
Responsibility, and the clerks of the appropriate courts of the State of 
Wyoming.
 
[¶6]     DATED this 
1st day of February, 2012.
 
                                                                        
BY THE COURT:
                                                
            
   
                                                                        
/s/
 
                                                                        
MARILYN S. KITE
                                                                        
Chief Justice