MATTER OF PALMER


423 Mass. 647 (1996)

IN THE MATTER OF WALTER E. PALMER.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

October 2, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Arnold R. Rosenfeld, Bar Counsel, & Nancy E. Kaufman, Assistant Bar Counsel.

Earle C. Cooley & John T. Hugo for the respondent.

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


GREANEY, J.

Based on the conduct that we shall describe shortly, the Board of Bar Overseers (board) recommended that Walter E. Palmer (attorney) be disbarred. On an information filed by bar counsel, a single justice of this court entered a judgment on March 29, 1995, immediately suspending the attorney from the practice of law for a period of four years and ordering the payment of costs. Both bar counsel and the attorney appealed. On December 13, 1995, another single...

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