Title: Matter of Hiner

State: delaware

Issuer: Delaware Supreme Court

Document:

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE 
 
IN THE MATTER OF A MEMBER § 
No. 566, 2002 
OF THE BAR OF THE SUPREME 
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COURT OF THE STATE OF  
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DELAWARE: 
 
 
 
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Board Case Nos. 33, 34 
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and 54, 2001 
JOHN R. HINER, JR.,   
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Respondent.  
 
 
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Submitted: October 30, 2002 
Decided: 
December 20, 2002  
 
Before VEASEY, Chief Justice, WALSH and HOLLAND, Justices. 
 
 
O R D E R  
 
This 20th day of December 2002, it appears to the Court that the Board on 
Professional Responsibility has filed its Report in this matter pursuant to Rule 9(e) of 
the Delaware Lawyers’ Rules of Disciplinary Procedure.  The Office of Disciplinary 
Counsel has filed objections to the Board's Report.  The Court has reviewed the matter 
pursuant to Rule 9(e) and concludes that the Board’s Report should be approved. 
As a result of the Court’s approval of the Board’s Report, the Respondent will 
be suspended for three years.  At the present time, the Respondent is serving a 
separate three-year suspension from the practice of law that began on May 6, 2002.  
The Court has concluded the last year of that prior three-year suspension should be 
served concurrently with the first year of the three-year suspension that is now being 
imposed.  
 
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NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS ORDERED that the Report of the Board on 
Professional Responsibility dated October 7, 2002 (copy attached) is hereby 
APPROVED.  The Respondent’s combined suspensions will total five years.  The 
three-year suspension that is imposed by this order will begin on May 2, 2004 and end 
on May 2, 2007.  The matter is hereby CLOSED. 
                                
 
BY THE COURT: 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
/s/ Randy J. Holland 
                               
 
Justice