In re Balliro

The present bar discipline matter is before us on a reservation and report, without decision, from a single justice of this court. The respondent, Fawn Balliro, is an assistant district attorney in Massachusetts and was the victim of a domestic as*76sault in Tennessee in 2005. The Board of Bar Overseers (board) has recommended that she be given a public reprimand, with conditions,1 for testifying falsely under oath at the criminal trial of her assailant. At issue is the appropriateness of that sanction given the unique factual circumstances underlying the respondent’s misconduct. For the reasons…