Application for Discipline of Palarine as Attorney

This is a proceeding by the State Board of Law Examiners to discipline respondent, Fiori L. Palarine, an attorney at law, or remove him from his office for wilful misconduct as such attorney.

The accusations involve respondent’s actions in connection with his employment as attorney to secure a pardon or commutation of sentence for Clarence C. Hamblen, Floyd Strain, and Anthony Strain and a parole for Arthur Barness, all inmates of the Minnesota state penitentiary. Only on one other occasion has respondent acted as attorney in similar proceedings.

Respondent was born in Italy in 1905. He came to…