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

OPALA, Vice Chief Justice.

In this proceeding against a lawyer for imposition of professional discipline the issues are: 1) Can the respondent’s mental or emotional condition be invoked as a vehicle for deferment of imposition of discipline? and 2) If not, then what is the proper measure of discipline to be imposed upon respondent for his misconduct? We answer the first question in the negative and, responding to the second, we conclude that disbarment is the only appropriate sanction.

*921Chris E. Colston [Colston], a licensed lawyer, was charged with five counts of professional misconduct for…