BATES v. STATE BAR

Docket No. S014196.

51 Cal.3d 1056 (1990)

800 P.2d 859

275 Cal. Rptr. 381

DAVID SMITH BATES, Petitioner, v. THE STATE BAR OF CALIFORNIA, Respondent.

Supreme Court of California.

December 3, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

David A. Clare for Petitioner.

Diane C. Yu, Truitt A. Richey, Jr., Major Williams, Jr., and Ann M. Finneran for Respondent.


OPINION

THE COURT.

The Review Department of the State Bar Court recommends that petitioner David Smith Bates be suspended from the practice of law for three years as discipline for willful misappropriation of client funds, and that execution of his suspension be stayed subject to certain conditions including actual suspension for six months. (Four members of the department voted to impose...

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