Court Opinion

ID: 9884706
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-10-06 03:08:55.340278+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:48:40.154154
License: Public Domain

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE UNDERWOOD and MR. JUSTICE SCHAEFER, dissenting in part: We concur with the majority’s statement that: “Although the [respondent’s] original lapse from proper professional conduct might be explained on the basis of ignorance of the law or poor judgment, his subsequent actions brook neither explanation nor condonation. The record reveals a course of conduct which included obliteration of matters in his personal records, an omission from an application for an Attorney General’s consent which could not possibly have been due to oversight, testimony which ranged from reluctance to equivocation to contradiction to falsehood and which covered too long a period of time to be considered a single transaction.” In our judgment the recommendation of the Board of Governors that respondent be disbarred is appropriate, and we would accept it.