Legal Opinion
In re Sleeper
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided January 28, 1925PublishedCited by 37 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtRugg, C.J.
This is a petition for the disbarment of the respondent, an attorney at law. One of the charges set forth in the petition for disbarment was that the respondent had told separately to Arthur E. Keating and to William H. Proctor, both members of the State police, that one of the respondent’s clients, Hollis H. Hunnewell by name, had represented that he already had paid on three different occasions a large sum of money by way of blackmail to certain lawyers; that an appointment had been made for him to go to a designated room in a Boston hotel, where he feared that a further demand would be…
2Cases cited23 opinions
- Bradley v. FisherSupreme Court of the United States · 1872
- Ex Parte RobinsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1874
- Ex Parte WallSupreme Court of the United States · 1883
- Davis v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1920
- Moss v. Old Colony Trust Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1923
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3Cited by37 opinions
- Pizer v. HuntMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1925
- Blankenburg v. CommonwealthMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1927
- McMurdo v. GetterMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1937
- Commonwealth v. DevereauxMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1926
- In re KeenanMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1943
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