Matter of Phillips

Respondent challenges a Report and Recommendation in which the Board on Professional Responsibility (1) found that the Secretary of the District of Columbia Bar properly refused to accept his voluntary resignation and (2) recommended his disbarment based on his plea of guilty to an offense involving moral turpitude. He argues that the Board erred in finding that his resignation was properly rejected. We affirm this finding.

On March 11, 1981 respondent pled guilty to one count each of rape and sodomy in the Circuit Court of Fairfax County, Virginia. On the same date, following his plea offer…