Office of Lawyer Regulation v. John Kenyatta Riley

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I agree that a public reprimand and full costs should be imposed. I do not, however, join the opinion of three justices of this court. The opinion of the three justices is not a majority opinion. It is, in the terminology of the court, a "lead opinion."

¶ 93. The phrase "lead opinion" is not, as far as I am aware, defined in our Internal Operating Procedures or elsewhere in the case law. Our Internal Operating Procedures (IOP) refer to "lead opinions," but only in stating that if, during the process of circulating and revising opinions, "the opinion originally circulated as the majority…