Committee on Professional Ethics & Conduct v. Oehler

HARRIS, Justice.

In this attorney disciplinary proceeding the respondent and the committee reached a stipulation on many of the facts and recommended a two-year suspension. Upon our de novo review of the entire record, including the stipulated facts, we find the respondent’s license should be revoked.

The facts are inordinately complex and not easily subject to narrative description. Superficially, it might seem that the complexity is suggested as a defense, as if the respondent could somehow find refuge from the complaint in the difficulty of searching out the facts. If so, there is no such…