State Ex Rel. Oklahoma Bar Ass'n v. Caldwell

OPALA, Justice.

In this disciplinary proceeding against a lawyer, the issues to be decided are: (1) Is the record 1 sufficient for a meaningful de novo consideration of the complaint’s disposition? and (2) Is a two-year-and-one-day suspension with imposition of costs, to be effective from November 30, 1989 (the date on which respondent took associate-member status), an appropriate disciplinary sanction to be imposed for respondent’s breach of professional discipline? We answer both questions in the affirmative.

The Oklahoma Bar Association [Bar] charged Jean M. Caldwell [respondent] with two…