State Ex Rel. Oklahoma Bar Ass'n v. Carpenter

OPALA, Justice.

In this disciplinary proceeding against a lawyer the issues to be decided are: (1) Is *1126the record, consisting of the stipulated facts, a trial transcript and two depositions, sufficient for a meaningful de novo consideration of the disciplinary proceeding’s disposition? and (2) Is a six-month suspension, to be followed by a two-and-one-half-year post-reinstatement probation, an appropriate disciplinary sanction to be imposed for respondent’s professional misconduct? We answer both questions in the affirmative.

The Oklahoma Bar Association [Bar] charged Bob Carpenter [Carpenter or…