Matter of Howey

After hearings pursuant to our rules on disciplinary procedures, the Board of Commissioners on Grievances and Discipline filed with this Court its final certified report finding that the respondent suffers from manic depressive mental illness which precludes him from being able to exercise the discretion and judgment necessary for the practice of law. The board unanimously recommended that he be “suspended from the practice of law for the duration of his mental illness.”

The matter came to be heard before this Court as a result of a rule to show cause why the report of the board should not be…