In Re Stafford

This is a petition to review a decision of disbarment by the Board of Governors of The State Bar of California.

The record discloses that petitioner was charged with improper conduct in five distinct transactions, referred to in the proceedings as the Carl Smith transaction, the Hohenstein transaction, the Timbrell transaction, the Shewbridge transaction and the Prince transaction. Evidence was heard upon all of these charges, and the local administrative committee found against the petitioner upon each of these charges and recommended his disbarment. At the hearing before the Board of…