Opinion ID: 1742218
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 1

Heading: on application to modify previous opinion

Text: Disbarment of Rubel Phillips was ordered by this Court based on an opinion handed down on April 2, 1980. Now he has filed a petition for rehearing, which makes no challenge of the content of the opinion as written. Phillips asserts that the Court should specify a date from which the three year period of time will run before this Appellee can file a Petition for Reinstatement. We here treat his petition as being in actuality an application to modify our previous opinion, and our judgment is that modification will be appropriate. The application before us asserts that under Mississippi Code Annotated § 73-3-337 (1972) [1] Phillips is entitled to petition for reinstatement within three (3) years from the date of his conviction in a federal court in the State of New York on March 11, 1977. We are urged to order that the three year period runs from that date. As stated in our opinion previously handed down in this cause, the Complaint Tribunal should have disbarred Phillips by its order dated September 4, 1979. Upon the peculiar facts of this case, our conclusion is that the three year period under § 73-3-337, supra, will run from and after September 4, 1979 rather than from the date on which Phillips was originally convicted (or any other suggested date) in a federal court trial which transpired in the State of New York. APPLICATION FOR MODIFICATION OF PREVIOUS OPINION GRANTED.