In Re Cotton

I find Respondent's conduct warrants a more severe sanction than do my colleagues. More egregious to me than the ex parte contact with Judge Clem is the fact that Respondent caused an instrument (the protection order) to be altered in a way with material legal consequences (by inserting the reference to the South Central Way Property which was not in fact covered by the protection order) and then using that instrument to the detriment of another (by preventing client's husband from removing property that he had obtained a court order permitting him to remove, by causing him to be threatened…