Court Opinion

ID: 9648919
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-23 14:38:09.675327+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:12:06.380086
License: Public Domain

NEWMAN, Associate Judge,
concurring:
In my dissent in In re Reback, 513 A.2d 226, 234 (D.C.1986) (en banc), I made clear that I believed the six months’ suspension imposed on Reback and Parsons was woefully inadequate; I thought the appropriate sanction was suspension for one year and a day. It was clear to me then that the inadequate sanction imposed in that case would come back to haunt us in future cases. In this case it does. The en banc court struggles to distinguish Reback to justify a greater sanction in this case. I decline to join in that struggle. The sanction in Reback was seriously deficient. A sanction here of a one-year suspension, however, is appropriate.
I specifically join so much of the opinion of the court as overrules Keiler and Klein-dienst as controlling precedents on the issue of disciplinary sanctions.