Office of Lawyer Regulation v. John Kenyatta Riley

¶ 112.

This is a landmark case in attorney discipline. It addresses the issue of an attorney's ethical responsibilities when the attorney's client — or a witness called by the attorney — provides false testimony that the attorney knows is false at the time of the testimony or learns is false sometime after the testimony.

¶ 113. It is hard for a judge not to sound the trumpet and wave the flag for "the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth" in judicial proceedings. No one in the judiciary is "for" false testimony. Yet the court's lead opinion, which emphatically embraces the…