In re Samuels

OPINION OF THE COURT

Respondent Edward B. Samuels was admitted to the practice *8of law in the State of New York by the First Judicial Department on March 3, 1975, under the name Edward Barry Samuels. At all times relevant herein, respondent maintained his principal place of business within this Judicial Department as a professor at New York Law School.

In an indictment filed on April 10, 2003, respondent was charged in Supreme Court, New York County, with 100 counts of possessing a sexual performance by a child in violation of Penal Law § 263.16, a class E felony. The indictment alleged that on…