Kentucky Bar Ass'n v. Ricketts

This is a disciplinary action filed by the complainant, the Kentucky Bar Association, pursuant to SCR 3.160, et seq.

On September 5, 1979, this court, pursuant to a request from the Inquiry Tribunal of the Kentucky Bar Association, entered an order temporarily suspending the respondent from the practice of law. SCR 3.165. On October 4, 1979, we denied the respondent’s motion to dissolve that order.

On October 23,1979, the Inquiry Tribunal issued a charge that respondent had engaged in unethical and unprofessional conduct tending to bring the bench and bar into disrepute. SCR 3.130. The…