Hipolito v. State Bar

Opinion

THE COURT.

We examine the recommendation of the Review Department of the State Bar Court (hereafter the department) that petitioner Juan Hipolito be suspended from the practice of law in California for five years, that execution of the suspension be stayed and that he be placed on probation for five years on specified conditions including actual suspension for two years. Because the department erred in rejecting significant mitigating factors found by the hearing panel (hereafter the panel), we conclude the department’s recommended discipline is excessive and choose to modify it. As…