In Re Wilkins

DISCIPLINARY ACTION ON PETITION FOR REHEARING

DICKSON, Justice.

The respondent in this attorney discipline matter seeks rehearing following our per curiam opinion, Matter of Wilkins, 777 N.E.2d 714 (Ind.2002), which held that certain remarks in the respondent's brief supporting his petition for transfer in a prior case violated Indiana Professional Conduct Rule 8.2(a) and warranted his suspension from the practice of law for thirty days. His petition requests reconsideration of (1) *986the application of the First Amendment protection to the offending remarks, and (2) the appropriate sanction to be…