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IN RE PLESHAW

No. 09-BG-931.

2 A.3d 169 (2010)

In re Robert J. PLESHAW, Respondent. A Member of the Bar of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals (Bar Registration No. 938241).

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided August 12, 2010.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James T. Maloney, Washington, DC, for respondent.

H. Clay Smith, III, Assistant Bar Counsel, with whom Wallace E. Shipp, Jr., Bar Counsel, and Judith Hetherton, Senior Assistant Bar Counsel, were on the brief, for Office of Bar Counsel.

Before WASHINGTON, Chief Judge, and KRAMER and FISHER, Associate Judges.

KRAMER, Associate Judge:

This case once again presents the question whether a conservator's misappropriation of estate funds involved "mere negligence" or recklessness. If we conclude that the respondent acted with more than "mere negligence," we are bound to disbar him under In re Addams.1 We so conclude.

Following two days of hearings, respondent Robert Pleshaw was found to have...

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