Legal Opinion
In Re the Application for the Discipline of Benson
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Decided November 4, 1988No. C5-87-1989PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
2Per curiam
This petition for the discipline of respondent John T. Benson raises serious charges of misappropriation of an elderly client’s funds through the use of invalid documents and subsequent conspiracy with a second attorney to alter the documents and present perjured testimony to make the documents appear valid. We have already dealt with aspects of the case in the disciplinary proceeding of the second attorney. In re Kaine, 424 N.W.2d 64 (Minn.1988). We now address the disciplinary petition brought against the instigating attorney and order his disbarment.
Respondent was admitted to the…
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