IN THE MATTER OF McCARTHY


416 Mass. 423 (1993)

623 N.E.2d 473

IN THE MATTER OF TERRANCE J. McCARTHY.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

November 16, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jane R. Rabe, Assistant Bar Counsel.

Martin E. Mason (Terrance J. McCarthy with him) for the respondent.

Present: LIACOS, C.J., WILKINS, ABRAMS, LYNCH, & GREANEY, JJ.


ABRAMS, J.

At issue is the appropriate sanction to be imposed on an attorney who elicited false testimony and offered false documents in a proceeding before the Cambridge rent control board (rent control board). The single justice ordered that the respondent be publicly censured. Bar counsel appeals. We conclude that the respondent should be suspended from the practice of law for a period of one year.

1. The facts. Bar counsel commenced formal disciplinary...

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