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BOARD OF PROF. RESP v. COWAN

No. E2012-00377-SC-R3-BP

388 S.W.3d 264 (2012)

BOARD OF PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY OF the SUPREME COURT OF TENNESSEE v. Thomas Ewing COWAN.

Supreme Court of Tennessee, at Knoxville.

November 19, 2012.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas E. Cowan, Jr., Elizabethton, Tennessee, pro se.

Nancy S. Jones , Chief Disciplinary Counsel, and Krisann Hodges , Brentwood, Tennessee, for the appellee, Board of Professional Responsibility of the Supreme Court of Tennessee.

OPINION

CORNELIA A. CLARK, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which GARY R. WADE, C.J., and JANICE M. HOLDER, WILLIAM C. KOCH, JR., and SHARON G. LEE, JJ., joined.

This appeal involves a determination of the proper final discipline for an attorney who pleaded guilty to willful tax evasion. We hold that because ABA Standard for Imposing Lawyer Sanctions 5.11(b) applies to criminal acts such as those admitted by the attorney here, the trial court's...

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