In Re Attorney Discipline Matter

FLOYD R. GIBSON, Circuit Judge.

On February 9, 1995, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri ordered attorney P.S. (“appellant”) 1 to surrender his license and relinquish his enrollment in the district court following a similar disbarment by the Supreme Court of Missouri. On appeal, appellant argues that the district court erred in imposing discipline identical to that of the Supreme Court of Missouri because the Missouri court made factual findings which were precluded under the doctrine of collateral estoppel. Appellant also argues that the district court abused…