Legal Opinion · Dissent
In re Wiesner
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided March 20, 2012Published
1Dissent
Saxe, J. (dissenting).
On the surface, Neal E. Wiesner (petitioner) offers much to recommend him for admission to the bar of the State of New York. Although a convicted felon, once he completed serving a mandated prison term in 1990, he received an undergraduate college degree, then studied law and passed the New York State bar examination. While he was not granted admission to the bar of this state, he was admitted to the New Jersey bar in June 2005 and to the federal bar in the District of New Jersey, and then the New York Federal District Court and Circuit Court bars shortly afterward.…
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