Court Opinion

ID: 9624966
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 07:23:18.034762+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:05:57.808095
License: Public Domain

Gregory, Justice
(dissenting) :
I would impose the sanction recommended by the Board of Commissioners on Grievances and Discipline; that the resignation of the respondent, tendered before the hearings, be permanently accepted.
Respondent was admitted to the Bar in November 1975 and several months later began the practice of law. The incidents which precipitated these proceedings occurred almost immediately thereafter in March 1976 and arose out of his hobby of photography; not from the breach, by either omission or commission, of an attorney-client relationship.
Respondent was placed under the care of a psychiatrist and is now receiving counsel and treatment from a psychologist.
Upon proper petition by the Board this Court temporarily suspended respondent’s license pending final adjudication of these proceedings. Respondent practiced but briefly.
*600The majority opinion mandates permanent disbarment as the appropriate sanction to irrevocably separate respondent from the Roll of Attorneys licensed to practice in this State.
I would follow the recommendation of the Board and accept respondent’s request for permission to permanently resign and reach the same result.
Lewis, C. J., concurs.