In Re Butsch

From the earliest years of service in my present post, I have regarded sanctioning professional misconduct through simple license suspension as an inadequate response to many of the cases in which ethical or performance failure appears due to chemical dependence or mental impairment. See Matter of Alsip, 499 N.E.2d 1102 (1986). I have thus always supported and defended our profession's efforts to be more purposeful about assisting impaired lawyers and judges who want to make way against their disability and return to productive and ethical work. Indiana's contribution to the national movement…