Court Opinion

ID: 9696857
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-25 19:00:24.656518+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:20:27.244682
License: Public Domain

NEWMAN, Associate Judge,
dissenting:
If these persons had been admitted to practice when they committed their crimes, they would have been permanently disbarred. D.C.Code § ll-2503(a) (1981), In re Kerr, 424 A.2d 94 (D.C.1980) (en banc). Like my Brother Ferren, “I believe the same policy, whether eligibility to apply (or reapply) for a lawyer’s license, or permanent ineligibility to practice law, should apply in both situations,” supra at 1137. Unlike my Brother Ferren, however, I think Kerr was and still is correctly decided. I think this court’s ruling today disserves, indeed sullies the legal profession. I dissent.