In re Kersey

This is an appeal from a judgment of a single justice of this court disbarring the respondent, George E. Kersey, from the practice of law, pursuant to S.J.C. Rule 4:01, § 16, as appearing in 425 Mass. 1319 (1997) (reciprocal discipline). The respondent claims error because (1) his disbarment in New Hampshire is wrongful and was based on a wrongful New Hampshire suspension imposed as reciprocal discipline for a three-month Massachusetts suspension (Matter of Kersey, 15 Mass. Att’y Discipline Rep. 317 [1999], aff’d, 432 Mass. 1020 *66[2000], cert. denied, 531 U.S. 1127 [2001]); (2) he was deprived…