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IN RE ABBOTT

Docket No. S.F. 23496.

19 Cal.3d 249 (1977)

561 P.2d 285

137 Cal. Rptr. 195

In re WILLIAM H. ABBOTT on Disbarment.

Supreme Court of California.

March 24, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Coleman A. Blease and Blease, Vanderlaan & Rothschild for Petitioner.

Herbert M. Rosenthal and Ronald W. Stovitz for Respondent.

OPINION

THE COURT.*

This is a proceeding to review a recommendation of the Disciplinary Board of the State Bar that William Abbott be disbarred.

Abbott, a 51-year-old attorney admitted to practice in 1958, pleaded guilty to a charge of grand theft. In October 1972 the court sentenced him to prison but suspended execution of the sentence and placed him on five years' probation on conditions including...

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