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State ex rel Oklahoma Bar Association v. Mayes3/11/2003
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This Court is the ultimate arbiter of appropriate sanctions in bar discipline cases. We may choose to reject or to accept the trial panel's recommendations. Here, the trial panel's suggested sanctions are appropriate. Therefore, we determine that the respondent's misconduct, his prior disciplinary history and discipline administered in similar cases warrants disbarrment and the payment of $653.57 in costs.
CONCLUSION
The non-delegable, constitutional responsibility to regulate both the practice and the ethics, licensure, and discipline of the practitioners of the law is solely vested in this Court. Every lawyer is presented as a person worthy of competence and honesty in the performance of professional activities. It is our difficult duty to withdraw the license to practice law if necessary to protect the interest of the public, the legal profession and this tribunal. Any other approach would rightly confuse or equate a lawyer's state franchise with a license to cheat the public.
Although we may sympathize with the respondent's health conditions and the economic situation in which it has placed him, any empathy is offset by the fact that he may well have inflicted the same misery on two minor children who had already lost their mother. Upon a de novo review of the record, we determine that the respondent mismanaged his trust account and failed to cooperate in the grievance process. The respondent's misconduct warrants disbarrment and the payment of $653.57 in costs.
RESPONDENT DISBARRED; COSTS IMPOSED.
ALL JUSTICES CONCUR.
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