Opinion ID: 1770265
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: Review by the Disciplinary Board

Text: The Board first concluded that the Hearing Committee properly admitted the statement of factual basis into evidence. Then addressing the issue of extent of discipline and observing that the crime was serious enough for the judge to impose a two-year jail sentence, the Board concluded the baseline sanction was disbarment. Further considering the substantial mitigating factors, as well as the aggravating factors that respondent was not truthful in signing the estate tax return or in his statements to the judge at sentencing or in his admitted fraud of his wife, the Board recommended a suspension of three years, subject to a credit for his thirteen months of imprisonment. Respondent objected timely in this court under La.Sup.Ct.R. XIX, § 11G to the report and the recommendation of the Disciplinary Board. [5]