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Date Created: 2017-06-01 13:10:47.762136+00
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             DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA COURT OF APPEALS

No. 17-BG-328

IN RE G. PAUL HOWES, Petitioner.

A Disbarred Member of the Bar of the                              2017 DDN 15
District of Columbia Court of Appeals

Bar Registration No. 434709

BEFORE: Glickman and Thompson, Associate Judges, and Nebeker, Senior
        Judge.

                                       ORDER
                                (Filed – June 1, 2017)

       On consideration of Disciplinary Counsel’s report regarding petitioner’s
petition for reinstatement wherein Disciplinary Counsel informs the court that Mr.
Howes has demonstrated that he is fit to resume the practice of law, and it
appearing that petitioner is eligible to file the petition for reinstatement, see In re
Howes, 52 A.3d 1 (D.C. 2012); In re Howes, 39 A.3d 1 (D.C. 2012), it is

      ORDERED that petitioner’s petition for reinstatement is granted. It is

* Judge Nebeker would deny the motion to reinstate. Mr. Howes violated a most
sacred code as an Assistant United States Attorney for which, in my view, there is
no redemption. The gravamina of his misconduct should be held as an example to
all AUSAs that what he did will, for his lifetime, be a bar to reinstatement. For a
former AUSA this would not be excessive. It would be justice.
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      FURTHER ORDERED that G. Paul Howes is hereby reinstated to the Bar of
the District of Columbia.

                              PER CURIAM