COMMISSION FOR LAWYER DISCIPLINE v. BENTON

No. 97-0228.

980 S.W.2d 425 (1998)

COMMISSION FOR LAWYER DISCIPLINE, Petitioner, v. Barry Robert BENTON, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Texas.

Decided July 14, 1998.

Rehearing Overruled December 31, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel K. Hedges, Houston, Linda A. Acevedo, Austin, for Petitioner.

Barry R. Benton, Edmund K. Cyganiewicz, Brownsville, for Respondent.


PHILLIPS, Chief Justice, delivered the opinion of the Court as to Parts I, II, III, IV, V-A, V-B and V-E, in which HECHT, ENOCH, OWEN, ABBOTT and HANKINSON, Justices, joined, and an opinion as to Parts V-C, V-D, V-F and VI, in which ABBOTT and HANKINSON, Justices, joined, and announced the judgment of the Court.

This is a disciplinary action arising out of an attorney's letter attacking the integrity of jurors who rendered a verdict against his clients. The Commission...

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