Title: In re Taub
Citation: N/A
Docket Number: S44347
State: Oregon
Issuer: Oregon Supreme Court
Date: January 23, 1998

Filed:  January 23, 1998

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF OREGON

In Re: 

Complaint as to the conduct of		

BARRY LEO TAUB,				

	Accused.	

(OSB 95-60; SC S44347)
	

	Review of the decision of the trial panel of the
Disciplinary Board.

	Argued and submitted January 7, 1998.

	John Fisher, Eugene, argued the cause for accused.  George
W. Kelly, Eugene, filed the brief.	

	Jane E. Angus, Lake Oswego, argued the cause and filed the
brief for the Oregon State Bar.

	Before Carson, Chief Justice, Gillette, Van Hoomissen,
Graber, Durham, and Kulongoski, Justices.*

	PER CURIAM	

	The accused is disbarred.

	*Fadeley, J., did not participate in the consideration or
decision of this case.

		PER CURIAM

		In this disciplinary proceeding, the Oregon State Bar
(Bar) charged the accused with 17 separate violations of the Code
of Professional Responsibility and related statutes.  A trial
panel of the disciplinary board found the accused guilty of 16
violations.  The panel determined that the appropriate sanction
was disbarment.  

		On de novo review of the decision of the trial panel,
the accused acknowledges that the historical facts that were
found by the trial panel are correct.  The accused nonetheless
asserts that certain of the findings of guilt based on those
findings of fact may not be sustained because, as the accused
sees it, he suffered from an emotional condition that prevented
him from forming the requisite mental state to be guilty of some
of the charges.

		A recitation of the pertinent facts would not benefit
the Bar or the public.  It is sufficient to say that we are
satisfied that, based solely on the violations of rules and
statutes that the accused acknowledges that he may be found
guilty of committing, the accused should be disbarred.  We thus
are not required to resolve the questions raised by the accused
with respect to his emotional state as it affects either his
guilt of, or the sanction that should be imposed with respect to,
any additional charges.

		The accused is disbarred.