Title: WYOMING STATE BAR V. JOHN CRAIG ABRAHAM, Attorney No. 6-3436

State: wyoming

Issuer: Wyoming Supreme Court

Document:

WYOMING STATE BAR V. JOHN CRAIG ABRAHAM, Attorney No. 6-34362009 WY 123221 P.3d 960Case Number: D-09-0002Decided: 10/07/2009
October 
Term, A.D. 2009

 
 
WYOMING 
STATE BAR,Petitioner,v.JOHN CRAIG ABRAHAM,Attorney 
No. 6-3436,Respondent.

 
 
ORDER 
OF PUBLIC CENSURE

 
 
 
 

[¶1]      This 
matter 
came before the Court upon a "Report 
and Recommendation," filed herein August 27, 2009, 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, the materials 
attached thereto, and the file, finds that the Report and Recommendation should 
be approved, confirmed and adopted by the Court; and that Respondent John Craig 
Abraham should be publicly censured in the manner set forth in the 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 
John Craig Abraham 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; and it is further 

 
 

[¶4]      ADJUDGED 
AND ORDERED that, 
consistent with the Report and Recommendation for Public Censure, John Craig 
Abraham shall use mentors in the manner set forth in the Report and 
Recommendation; and it is further

 
 

[¶5]      ADJUDGED 
AND ORDERED that, 
consistent with the Report and Recommendation, if there is another complaint 
stemming from Respondent's conduct that occurs after August 1, 2009, in which he 
stipulates to or is found to have violated any of the Wyoming Rules of 
Professional Conduct, Respondent John Craig Abraham will immediately be 
suspended from the practice of law for two years.  This probationary period will last until 
January 1, 2012; and it is further

 
 

[¶6]      ORDERED 
that, 
pursuant to Section 26 of the Disciplinary Code for the Wyoming State Bar, John 
Craig Abraham shall reimburse the Wyoming State Bar the amount of $25.00, 
representing some of the costs incurred in handling this matter, as well as pay 
the administrative fee of $500.00.  
Mr. Abraham shall pay the total amount of $525.00 to the Clerk of the 
Board of Professional Responsibility on or before January 1, 2010; and it is 
further

 
 

[¶7]      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

 
 

[¶8]      ORDERED 
that, pursuant to Rule 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

 
 

[¶9]      
ORDERED 
that the Clerk of this Court cause a copy of the Order of Public Censure to be 
served upon Respondent John Craig Abraham; and it is 
further

 
 

[¶10]   ORDERED 
that the Clerk of this Court transmit a copy of this Order of Public Censure to 
members of the Board of Professional Responsibility and to the clerks of the 
appropriate courts of the State of Wyoming.

 
 

DATED 
this 7th day of October, 
2009.

 
 
                                                
                        
BY THE COURT:

 
 
 
 
                                                                        
/s/ Barton R. Voigt                            
            

                                                                        
BARTON R. VOIGT

                                                                        
Chief Justice