Office of Disciplinary Counsel v. Braun

OPINION OF THE COURT

FLAHERTY, Justice.

This disciplinary proceeding presents the question of whether respondent attorney’s admitted egregious misconduct is sufficiently mitigated by evidence of psychiatric illness to justify the sanction of suspension rather than disbarment. We hold that respondent, Seymour H. Braun, presented psychiatric testimony which established that his neurotic depression was a causal factor in his misconduct, and therefore adopt the recommendation of the Disciplinary Board that he be suspended from the practice of law for two years.

*159In November, 1980, respondent…