Title: BOARD OF PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY, WYOMING STATE BAR v. D. STEPHEN MELCHIOR, WSB 5-2885

State: wyoming

Issuer: Wyoming Supreme Court

Document:

BOARD OF PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY, WYOMING STATE BAR v. D. STEPHEN MELCHIOR, WSB 5-28852012 WY 4Case Number: D-11-0005Decided: 01/06/2012NOTICE: This opinion is subject to formal revision before publication in Pacific Reporter Third. Readers are requested to notify the Clerk of the Supreme Court, Supreme Court Building, Cheyenne, Wyoming 82002, of any typographical or other formal errors so correction may be made before final publication in the permanent volume.
October 
Term, A.D. 2011
 BOARD 
OF PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY, WYOMING STATE BAR,
Petitioner,
v.
D. 
STEPHEN MELCHIOR, WSB 5-2885,
Respondent.
 
ORDER 
OF PUBLIC CENSURE 
 
[¶1] 
This matter came before the Court upon a “Report and Recommendation,” 
filed herein December 22, 2011 by the Board of Professional Responsibility for 
the Wyoming State Bar. The Court, after a careful review of the Board of 
Professional Responsibility’s Report and Recommendation and the file, finds that 
the Report and Recommendation should be approved, confirmed and adopted by the 
Court, and that Respondent D. Stephen Melchior should be publicly censured for 
his conduct, which is described in the attached Report and Recommendation.  It is, therefore, 
 
[¶2] 
ADJUDGED AND ORDERED that the Board of Professional Responsibility’s 
Report and Recommendation, which is attached hereto and incorporated herein, 
shall be, and the same hereby is, approved, confirmed, and adopted by this 
Court; and it is further 
 
[¶3] 
ADJUDGED AND ORDERED that D. Stephen Melchior shall receive a public 
censure for his conduct, and he shall be publicly censured in a manner 
consistent with the recommended censure contained in the Report and 
Recommendation for Public; and it is further 
 
[¶4] 
ORDERED that, pursuant to Section 26 of the Disciplinary Code for the 
Wyoming State Bar, Mr. Melchior shall reimburse the Wyoming State Bar the amount 
of $2,372.89, representing the administrative costs incurred in handling this 
matter, as well as pay the administrative fee of $500.00. Mr. Melchior shall pay 
the total amount of $2,872.89 to the Clerk of the Board of Professional 
Responsibility on or before February 1, 2012; and it is further 

 
[¶5] 
ORDERED that the Clerk of this Court shall docket this Order of Public 
Censure, along with the incorporated Report and Recommendation, as a matter 
coming regularly before this Court as a public record; and it is further 

 
[¶6] 
ORDERED that, pursuant to Section 4(c) of the Disciplinary Code for the 
Wyoming State Bar, this Order of Public Censure, along with the incorporated 
Report and Recommendation, shall be published in the Wyoming Reporter and the 
Pacific Reporter; and it is further 
 
[¶7] 
ORDERED that the Clerk of this Court cause a copy of the Order of Public 
Censure to be served upon Respondent D. Stephen Melchior. 
 
[¶8] 
DATED this 6th day of January, 2012. 
 
Attachment
  
BY 
THE COURT: 
/s/ 

MARILYN S. 
KITE 
Chief 
Justice