Court Opinion

ID: 9601608
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 01:47:35.660805+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:01:58.757277
License: Public Domain

GORDON, Justice
(specially concurring):
I would agree with the Court that respondent should be indefinitely suspended from the practice of law in order to protect the public from the results of his mental condition, but I would have done so by an unpublished memorandum opinion. That type of decision of this Court is one of limited circulation. Publication of the opinion in the ordinary manner subjects respondent to unnecessary public humiliation and appears to have a punitive purpose. Although this may be appropriate in other types of attorney-misconduct cases, it has no place here, when the acts complained of were the result of personal shortcomings over which the respondent had no control.