State Ex Rel. Counsel for Discipline v. Sutton

INTRODUCTION

On May 27, 2004, formal charges were filed by the State of Nebraska on behalf of the Counsel for Discipline of the Nebraska Supreme Court, as relator, against the respondent, John I. Sutton, who was admitted to the practice of law in the State of Nebraska on September 12, 1979, and who is currently suspended from the practice of law. See State ex rel. Counsel for Dis. v. Sutton, 268 Neb. 485, 684 N.W.2d 23 (2004) (Sutton I). After Sutton failed to file an answer to the formal charges in the present case, we sustained the relator’s motion for judgment on the pleadings and must now…