In Re Kersey

Attorney George E. Kersey appeals from a district court order suspending him from the practice of law for three months and requiring that he purge himself of an out-of-state contempt citation before seeking reinstatement. The district court’s sanction, coming in a reciprocal-discipline case in New Hampshire, mirrors that imposed first by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC), see In re Kersey, 432 Mass. 1020, 733 N.E.2d 545 (2000) (re-script), cer t. denied, 531 U.S. 1127, 121 S.Ct. 884, 148 L.Ed.2d 792 (2001), and more recently by several other tribunals including the New Hampshire…