In Re DeBartolo

Following an investigation and hearing, the Committee on Character and Fitness for the First Judicial District refused to certify to the State Board of Law Examiners that the petitioner, Frederick Francis DeBartolo, possessed the good moral character and general fitness necessary for the practice of law. He has filed in this court a petition for relief from the committee’s refusal to certify his character and fitness (87 Ill. 2d R. 708(d)), and we now deny the petition.

The petitioner graduated from the John Marshall Law School in June 1981, and he passed the bar examination given in July of…