In re Kazdin

*109OPINION OF THE COURT

This is a petition by the Departmental Disciplinary Committee for the First Judicial Department seeking a determination that the crime of which respondent was convicted is a "serious crime”, suspending respondent from the practice of law and directing him to show cause before the Committee why a final order of censure, suspension or disbarment should not be entered.*

Respondent Melvin M. Kazdin was admitted to the practice of law in New York by the Second Judicial Department on December 18, 1957 and at all times pertinent to this proceeding maintained an office for the…