In re Moore

I agree with the single justice — and with the hearing committee — that the falsehoods on this particular application for admission to the bar were so pervasive, and the respondent’s current dishonesty so apparent, as to make disbarment, not merely suspension, the appropriate sanction.

The court today imposes a lesser sanction, feeling compelled to do so by the fact that lesser sanctions have been imposed in other cases involving lack of candor on an application for admission to the bar. Ante at 292-293, 295. In those cases, the respondent’s false statements or omissions essentially sought to…