IN RE HIGBIE

Docket No. L.A. 29892.

6 Cal.3d 562 (1972)

493 P.2d 97

99 Cal. Rptr. 865

In re RICHARD ALDEN HIGBIE on Suspension of License.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

February 4, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Blair Barnette, Higbie & Higbie and Suzanne Robinson for Petitioner.

F. LaMar Forshee, Herbert M. Rosenthal, Ronald W. Stovitz and Christopher M. Reuss for Respondent.


OPINION

THE COURT.

In this disciplinary proceeding we must consider whether the course of conduct of an attorney culminating in his conviction for failure to pay a federal marijuana transfer tax involves moral turpitude, and if so, the nature and extent of the appropriate discipline. We conclude that failure to pay the tax does not constitute moral turpitude per se, but that respondent attorney...

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