In Re Lyons

Opinion

THE COURT.

Richard Patrick Lyons, a member of the State Bar since 1946, seeks relief from a recommendation of the Disciplinary Board of the State Bar that he be disbarred from the practice of law.

Petitioner was charged by indictment and found guilty by a jury of five felony counts of embezzling trust funds. Such funds were held by him in his capacity as attorney for fiduciaries of one conservatorship estate and four estates of decedents. (Pen. Code, § 506.) On January 31, 1973, we ordered that petitioner be temporarily suspended from the practice of law as required upon our receipt of a…