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In the Matter of Dawkins

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

Decided March 2, 1992PublishedCited by 22 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtAbrams, J.

At issue is the appropriate discipline to impose on an attorney who deliberately misused client funds, and thereby caused his client to be temporarily deprived of his liberty pursuant to a capias. The Board of Bar Overseers (board) filed an information in the Supreme Judicial Court for the county of Suffolk recommending (by a five-to-four vote)1 that the respondent, Reuben S. Dawkins, be publicly *91censured. A single justice entered a judgment publicly censuring the respondent. Bar counsel appeals. We reverse. We order a six-month period of suspension.

Facts. Dawkins was retained by Kevin…

2Cases cited8 opinions

  1. In the Matter of AlterMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1983
  2. In the Matter of SaabMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1989
  3. In the Matter of the Discipline of an AttorneyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1984
  4. In THE MATTER OF McINERNEYMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1983
  5. In the Matter of PikeMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1990

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3Cited by22 opinions

  1. In re TobinMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1994
  2. In re SchoepferMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1997
  3. In re KerlinskyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1999
  4. In the Matter of LuongoMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1993
  5. In re BaileyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2003

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