Duncan v. Board of Disciplinary Appeals

joined by GONZALEZ, HIGHTOWER, GAMMAGE and SPECTOR, Justices.

This is an attorney’s appeal from a decision by the Board of Disciplinary Appeals (“BODA”) to suspend James M. Duncan from the practice of law during the period of his criminal probation resulting from a federal conviction of misprision of felony.1 We must decide whether misprision of felony is an intentional crime involving moral turpitude per se, which would subject Duncan to compulsory discipline. We hold that misprision of felony is not a crime involving moral turpitude per se. Once this Court determines that a particular crime…