State Ex Rel. Oklahoma Bar Ass'n v. Wright

OPALA, Vice Chief Justice,

with whom SIMMS, Justice, joins, dissenting.

I dissent from the lenient discipline visited by today’s decision. The gravity of the respondent’s criminal misconduct prevents me from joining the court’s order that imposes a two-year-and-one-day suspension. I would order the respondent disbarred.

The respondent, admittedly a drug user from 1983 to 1986, became a state district attorney in January 1987. On April 13, 1987 he was charged by indictment in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma with the crime of possession of cocaine (6 counts) and…