IN RE DITTON

No. 06-BG-44.

954 A.2d 986 (2008)

In re Michael H. DITTON, Respondent. A Member of the Bar of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals (Bar Registration No. 436463).

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided August 14, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael H. Ditton filed a brief pro se.

Wallace E. Shipp, Jr., Bar Counsel, Judith Hetherton, Senior Assistant Bar Counsel, and Julia L. Porter, Senior Assistant Bar Counsel, filed a brief for the Office of Bar Counsel.

Before FISHER and THOMPSON, Associate Judges, and SCHWELB, Senior Judge.


FISHER, Associate Judge:

This is a hybrid attorney discipline case. Based on proceedings conducted in Virginia, the Board on Professional Responsibility ("Board") recommends that we impose on respondent Michael H. Ditton reciprocal discipline in the form of a five-year suspension from the practice of law. In addition, however, the Board recommends "imposition of a fitness requirement ... based on the standard applied in original proceedings." We neither accept nor...

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