Florida Bar v. Reese

In this Bar discipline proceeding, we review a recommendation of the referee dated November 4, 1971, that respondent Frank Clyde Reese, a member of The Florida Bar, be publicly reprimanded for converting to his own use the funds of two clients. The Bar, while agreeing with the referee’s findings of fact, views the punishment as inadequate and seeks the imposition of harsher penalties.

In pertinent part, the findings and recommendations of the referee are as follows:

“FINDINGS OF FACT

“After considering all of the pleadings, depositions, testimony, exhibits and evidence before me, I find the…