Title: State ex. rel. Oklahoma Bar Ass'n v. Foster

State: oklahoma

Issuer: Oklahoma Supreme Court

Document:

State ex. rel. Oklahoma Bar Ass'n v. Foster  State ex. rel. Oklahoma Bar Ass'n v. Foster 2000 OK 4 995 P.2d 1138 71 OBJ 128 Case Number: SCBD-4401 Decided: 01/18/2000 Modified: 01/19/2000 Supreme Court of Oklahoma STATE OF OKLAHOMA, ex rel.OKLAHOMA BAR ASSOCIATION, Complainant, v. ROBERT L. FOSTER, Respondent [995 P.2d 1139] ORDER ¶1 On November 23, 1998, the complainant, Oklahoma Bar Association (Bar Association), charged the respondent, Robert L. Foster (attorney), with a single count of professional misconduct. The Bar Association alleged violation of Rule 1.3, Rules Governing Disciplinary Proceedings, ¶2 On August 31, 1999, a hearing was held before the Professional Responsibility Tribunal (trial panel) at which the Bar Association and the attorney presented agreed findings of fact and conclusions of law with a recommendation that the attorney be privately reprimanded and that costs be imposed. The agreed facts and the testimony before the trial panel reveal that the incident giving rise to the criminal charges involved the attorney viewing A.M.'s breasts and subsequently making an inappropriate comment in which the attorney indicated to A.M. that she had nice breasts and that they should be photographed. ¶3 Having reviewed the complaint, the response, the stipulations of law and of fact, the transcript of the proceeding, along with the trial panel's recommendation and the joint brief of the parties on appeal, we determine that: ¶4 IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED, ADJUDGED AND DECREED THAT the respondent, Robert L. Foster, is reprimanded and admonished that his behavior constituted unprofessional conduct which will not be condoned by this Court. Costs of investigating and prosecuting the complaint in the amount of $194.42 are imposed. DONE BY ORDER OF THE SUPREME COURT IN CONFERENCE THIS 13th DAY OF JANUARY, 2000. SUMMERS, C.J., LAVENDER, KAUGER, WATT, BOUDREAU, JJ. concur. HARGRAVE, V.C.J., WITH WHOM HODGES, J. JOINS, DISSENTING: OPALA, J., DISSENTING: FOOT