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Title: Blake v. Moore
Author : Fifth Appellate District Court of Appeal of California
Release Date : January 13, 1984
Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 58 KB

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This is a proceeding to review a recommendation of the Review Department of the State Bar Court that petitioner be disbarred. The findings underlying the recommendation essentially were that petitioner failed to render his client a full accounting for $89,000 received in settlement of a lawsuit, and that out of the settlement proceeds he commingled and misappropriated almost $6,000 which he had agreed to transmit to the Internal Revenue Service in satisfaction of the clients tax obligations and further misappropriated a lesser amount payable to the client. The hearing panel unanimously recommended that petitioner be put on probation for three years, with six months actual suspension from practice, subject to his making restitution and fulfilling other conditions. The review department advises this court that its recommendation of disbarment, made by a vote of eight to two, stemmed from a conclusion that the hearing panel had given insufficient weight to petitioners prior record of discipline. We shall conclude that one of the findings on which discipline was recommended is unsupported by convincing proof to a reasonable certainty, that under all