Legal Opinion
Disciplinary Counsel v. Frost
Ohio Supreme Court
Decided June 24, 2009No. 2009-0069PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Per curiam
{¶ 1} Respondent, Merrie Maurine Frost of Cleveland Heights, Ohio, Attorney Registration No. 0059642, was admitted to the practice of law' in Ohio in 1992.
{¶ 2} The Board of Commissioners on Grievances and Discipline recommends that we indefinitely suspend respondent’s license to practice, based on findings that she filed in court false accusations of bias and corruption against judges and a county prosecutor and also persisted in pursuing a baseless defamation suit. We accept the board’s findings and agree that the acts constituted professional misconduct as found by the board and that an…
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