In re Rassner

(dissenting) :

I believe, with my brothers, that no man is “beyond redemption” if their reference be to the biblical teaching of redemption of the soul or redemption from sin into Everlasting Life.1 But that redemption is solely God’s.2 I deem it fully within the mortal limitations of judicial determination entrusted to us, to conclude that an attorney’s past actions, misdeeds and betrayals of trust and of his profession can in appropriate circumstances warrant his complete banishment from the law’s “Garden of Eden” without absolution.

There should in appropriate circumstances be a recognized…