Florida Board of Bar Examiners re M.L.B.

Petitioner M.L.B. asks this Court to review the recommendations of the Florida Board of Bar Examiners. We have jurisdiction. Art. V, § 15, Fla. Const. We decline to order M.L.B.’s admission to the bar at this time.

Petitioner M.L.B. was initially denied admission to The Florida Bar in 1997. The denial was based upon the Board’s findings that (1) just before entering law *996school, M.L.B. assisted another person in stealing a large number of compact discs from M.L.B.’s employer and ultimately pled no contest to third-degree grand theft; (2) that M.L.B.’s explanation of this incident on his…