In re Shorter

The Board on Professional Responsibility has recommended that John A. Shorter, Jr., a member of the Bar of this court, be publicly censured for violations of Rules 1.1(a), 1.3(a), and 8.4(d) of the Rules of Professional Conduct. The proposed discipline arises from Shorter’s failure to prepare for trial in two cases involving a criminal defendant whom Shorter was representing pro bono and from Shorter’s conduct in leaving certain grand jury transcripts with his client, in violation of a protective order issued by the court.

The Board recognized, as do we, that Shorter’s conduct was serious and…