In Re a Member of the State Bar of Arizona Redondo

I respectfully dissent. For a number of reasons, I agree with the Disciplinary Commission that respondent should be disbarred.

The majority considered each of respondent’s ethical violations in isolation and relied heavily on the fact that, under the American Bar Association’s Standards for Imposing Lawyer Sanctions, each type of ethical violation committed by respondent warrants suspension rather than disbarment. I think that this approach is misguided.

By considering each type of ethical violation in isolation, the majority overlooks the severity of respondent’s ethical violations, which…