In re Baldino

Respondent, John A. Baldino, was convicted by a jury in May 1982 of conspiracy to commit official misconduct and receive compensation for past official behavior. See N.J.S.A. 2C:5-2, 2C:30-2, and 2C:27-4. He was suspended from the practice of law in September 1982. Cf. R. 1:20-6 (effective February 15, 1984, and providing for automatic temporary suspension of lawyer convicted of, inter alia, conspiracy to commit “serious crime” as defined in Rule). Thereafter respondent was charged in a formal ethics complaint, and at the conclusion of proceedings at the local level the District V-C (Essex…