MORRISSEY v. VIRGINIA STATE BAR

Record No. 940374.

448 S.E.2d 615 (1994)

Joseph D. MORRISSEY v. VIRGINIA STATE BAR.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

September 16, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Larry D. Catlett, Richmond (Catlett & Kaplan, on briefs), for appellant.

W. Mark Dunn, Asst. Atty. Gen. (James S. Gilmore, III, Atty. Gen., Gregory E. Lucyk, Sr. Asst. Atty. Gen., on brief), for appellee.

Present: All the Justices.


WHITING, Justice.

This case was heard on an amended complaint filed by the Virginia State Bar charging Joseph Dee Morrissey, then the Commonwealth's Attorney for the City of Richmond, with violations of a number of disciplinary rules in connection with his prosecution of felony charges against Robert William Molyneux, III. Although the trial court dismissed a number of the charges, it found that Morrissey violated the following disciplinary rules:

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