In Re Joyce Nanine McCOOL

hi agree with the majority that the respondent has engaged in professional misconduct. However, I find some aspects of respondent’s conduct amounted to constitutionally protected speech, for which respondent cannot be sanctioned. Furthermore, I find the majority’s sanction of disbarment to be disproportional to respondent’s misconduct.

The majority finds that the respondent’s online and social media campaign was an orchestrated effort to inflame the public sensibility and to direct public criticism toward the judges presiding over child custody litigation-in both Louisiana and Mississippi. I…