STATE EX REL. OKL. BAR ASS'N v. COLSTON

SCBD No. 3487.

777 P.2d 920 (1989)

STATE of Oklahoma ex rel. OKLAHOMA BAR ASSOCIATION, Complainant, v. Chris E. COLSTON, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

Rehearing Denied July 6, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alan B. Foster, Asst. Gen. Counsel, Oklahoma Bar Ass'n, Oklahoma City, for complainant.

Paul M. Vassar, Vassar and Vassar, Chandler, for respondent.

Cleta Deatherage Mitchell, Derryberry, Quigley, Parrish & Gooding, Oklahoma City, for amicus curiae, Theresa R. Wilson.


OPALA, Vice Chief Justice.

In this proceeding against a lawyer for imposition of professional discipline the issues are: 1) Can the respondent's mental or emotional condition be invoked as a vehicle for deferment of imposition of discipline? and 2) If not, then what is the proper measure of discipline to be imposed upon respondent for his misconduct? We answer the first question in the negative and, responding to the second, we conclude that disbarment is the only...

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