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  • 27 A.3d 1178
  • 2011 D.C. App. LEXIS 528
  • 2011 WL 3925047

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  • noting that the fact that respondent’s conduct “did not involve moral turpitude does not diminish the severity of respondent’s misconduct”
  • declining to find moral turpitude because “[i]n the end, this case turns on the allocation of the burden of proof’
  • taking into account the vulnerability of attorney's assault victim and her status a client
  • taking into account the vulnerability of attorney’s assault victim and her status a client
  • focusing on respondent's motive for his crime and concluding it was the aberrational result of the exceptional stressors in his personal and professional life, rather than a desire for personal gain
  • “Bar Counsel must show by clear and convincing evidence that respondent’s conduct, viewed in context, involved moral turpitude on the facts.”

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Judges: Blackburne-Rigsby, Thompson, Ruiz

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