Court Opinion

ID: 9611230
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 03:53:42.666948+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:03:11.212370
License: Public Domain

Hamilton, J.
(concurring in the dissent) — I, like Chief Justice Wright, have signed the dissent by Brachtenbach, J. I would but add that the majority, out of a great degree of compassion for respondent's "misguided" conduct, is implicitly endorsing a course of lawyer conduct which the majority characterizes as "blatant dishonesty". To place our tacit stamp of approval on the conduct this record reveals is to unduly expose the public, as well as the courts and the legal profession, to the potential harm that can flow from a legal practitioner who embarks upon his career without the requisite moral judgment and integrity.
In my view respondent, at a minimum, should be indefinitely suspended, the suspension to continue until such time as respondent can credibly demonstrate the moral maturity necessary to fulfill the trust which must be placed in his fitness as an attorney by the public, clients, and the courts.
Stafford and Brachtenbach, JJ., concur with Hamilton. J.