Board of Overseers of the Bar v. Murphy

On July 31, 1991, a single justice of the Supreme Judicial Court (Wathen, J.) issued an opinion and order that declared Daniel J. Murphy to have violated and to be in contempt of a prior order of a single justice of the Supreme Judicial Court (Wathen, J.) that disbarred Murphy from the practice of law in the State of Maine, effective April 16, 1990. We affirmed that disbarment order in February 1990, see Board of Overseers of the Bar v. Murphy, 570 A.2d 1212 (Me.1990), and today we affirm the order holding Murphy in contempt of court.

The record before us amply supports the single justice’s…