In Re of Lock

*306Justice HANKINSON

delivered the

opinion of the Court,

in which Chief Justice PHILLIPS, Justice ENOCH, Justice BAKER, Justice O’NEILL, and Justice JEFFERSON joined.

The issue in this appeal from a judgment of the Board of Disciplinary Appeals (BODA) concerns the appropriate disciplinary procedure to be followed when a licensed Texas attorney is convicted of or placed on probation with or without an adjudication of guilt for possession of a controlled substance. We must decide whether discipline in this instance is mandatory under the compulsory discipline process, or whether BODA may consider a…