Court Opinion

ID: 9510613
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-06 21:57:57.407855+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:08:03.469005
License: Public Domain

JUSTICE LEAPHART,
dissenting.
¶125 I join in ¶¶ 52 - 92 of Justice Nelson’s dissent wherein he concludes that the procedures under Rule 9 fail to separate the adjudicative function from the investigative and prosecutorial functions of the Commission on Practice and thus fail to assure an impartial tribunal as guaranteed by the due process clause of the Montana Constitution, Article II, Section 17.
¶ 126 As to Rule 13,1 agree with Justice Regnier that, to the extent it has been interpreted by the Commission to deny an accused attorney *533access to information pertaining to the alleged misconduct, it has been misinterpreted by the Commission.