In re Corrigan

The panel and the board based their recommendations on the protracted nature of Corrigan’s cheating, her lack of candor at the hearing before the panel, and her failure to fully inform her character references of the charges against her. Corrigan objected to the recommendation. Before this court she contended that (1) the hearing was unduly adversarial and focused on past misconduct instead of present character thereby “taint[ing]” the panel’s recommendation, (2) her “trial” counsel was ineffective and should have advised her to withdraw her current application, among other things, so that…