Opinion ID: 1694582
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 1

Heading: the bar's complaint was subject to dismissal

Text: Terrell argues that the instant case should have been dismissed because there was another bar complaint pending against her. There were two grievances, Docket No. 91-304-2, which became the present case, and Docket No. 91-490-2, Coleman's second bar complaint, filed as a result of Terrell's failure to pay into the registry of the Circuit Court of Humphreys County the fifteen hundred ($1,500.00) dollars as directed by the Order of that court. Terrell complains that due process and the Rules of Discipline do not allow the bar to bifurcate known issues arising out of the same occurrences into separate complaints because it would subject an attorney to multiple discipline for the same alleged violations. The second charge filed by Coleman was disposed of by the imposition of an informal admonition on Terrell without the filing of a Formal Complaint, and this second charge was taken care of more than one (1) year after the order in the present cause was entered. As to this first assignment of error, Terrell has failed to establish that there were two Formal Complaints involving the same facts and issues imposed against her, because only one Formal Complaint was ever filed. Therefore, this issue is without merit.