Lisi v. Grimes

OPINION

This is a disciplinary proceeding that was heard by the Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Rhode Island (board) in June 1991.

The respondent, Peter 0. Grimes (Grimes), became a member of the Rhode Island Bar on November 8, 1968.

In mid-August 1991 J. Peter McGuirl, judge of the Jamestown Probate Court, notified the board that he had ordered Grimes to submit an accounting regarding the estate of Frank Peter Slingluff. The probate judge notified the board that forty-two checks had been written on diverse dates by Grimes, the administrator of the estate. Consequently a citation was…