Opinion ID: 1726998
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 39

Heading: Discipline by Consent

Text: 16.1 An attorney against whom formal charges have been served may thereafter tender a conditional guilty plea to the petition or to a particular count thereof in exchange for a stated form of punishment. Such a tendered plea shall be submitted to Disciplinary Counsel and approved or rejected by the Board upon recommendation of the hearing committee if the matter has already been assigned for hearing, subject, however, to final approval or rejection by the Court if the stated form of punishment includes disbarment, suspension or public reprimand. 16.2 A continuance in a hearing committee proceeding on the basis of such a tender shall be granted only with the concurrence of Disciplinary Counsel. Approval of such a tendered plea by the Board, and if required, by the Court shall divest the hearing panel of further jurisdiction and no committee report need be prepared in such cases. The final order of discipline shall be predicated upon the petition and an approved tendered conditional guilty plea.