Florida Bar ex rel. McGraw

We have for review a referee’s report recommending that Andrew R. McGraw be reinstated to the practice of law in Florida. We have jurisdiction. - See art. V, § 15, Fla. Const. For the reasons explained herein, we disapprove the referee’s recommendation that McGraw be reinstated.

FACTS

After conducting a full hearing, the referee issued a report making the following detailed findings of McGraw’s long procedural history before the Bar.

Criminal and Disciplinary History

In 1997, McGraw pled nolo contendere to a charge of misdemeanor battery and was sentenced to eleven months in jail. On March 25,…