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IN RE HEWETT

No. 07-BG-624.

11 A.3d 279 (2011)

In re Willie N. HEWETT, Respondent, A Member of the Bar of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals (Bar Registration No. 372772).

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided January 13, 2011.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ronald Steven Douglas , for respondent.

Ross T. Dicker , Assistant Bar Counsel, with whom Wallace E. Shipp, Jr. , Bar Counsel and Judith Hetherton , Senior Assistant Bar Counsel, were on the brief, for the Office of Bar Counsel.

Elizabeth J. Branda , for the Board on Professional Responsibility.

Before RUIZ, KRAMER and BLACKBURNE-RIGSBY, Associate Judges.

RUIZ, Associate Judge:

In this case, we determine, for the first time, that the presumptive rule of disbarment established in In re Addams, 579 A.2d 190, 191 (D.C.1990) (en banc), should not be imposed as a sanction for intentional misappropriation. We adopt the Board on Professional Responsibility's uncontested finding that respondent misappropriated client funds but, unlike the Board, conclude that the misappropriation...

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