In Re Application of Floyd Edmond WEBB, III

OPINION

The applicant, Floyd Edmond Webb, III, petitioned this Court for a hearing concerning the recommendation of the Supreme Court’s Committee on Character and Fitness (committee) that he be denied admission to the Rhode Island bar. Specifically, the applicant asserts that the committee abused its discretion by neither admitting him to the bar outright, nor recommending conditional admission under Article II, Rule 3(1)(2) of the Supreme Court Rules of Admission of Attorneys and Others to Practice Law. This matter came before the Supreme Court pursuant to an order directing the applicant to…