In re Samuels

OPINION OF THE COURT

Petitioner Departmental Disciplinary Committee moves to *86confirm the findings and the opinion of the Hearing Panel which, following a hearing, recommended that respondent who had been convicted, after a jury trial, of promoting prison contraband and criminal possession of a hypodermic needle, both class A misdemeanors, should be suspended for one year with additional conditions.

Respondent was admitted to practice in this Department in May 1978.

In 1982, he entered the Manhattan Court Detention Facility to visit a client being held there while waiting arraignment. Because of…