Iowa Supreme Court Board of Professional Ethics & Conduct v. Mulford

How courts have described this case

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• sanctioning an attorney as a member of the Iowa bar for willful avoidance of prosecution by failing to return to the United States to resolve charges alleged in a federal indictment
• sanctioning an attorney as a member of the Iowa bar for willful avoidance of prosecution by failing to return to the United States to resolve charges alleged in a federal indictment
• finding the attorney failed to prove prejudice by clear and convincing evidence
• “[W]hen an attorney willfully disobeys an order or command of a court or the processes of a court, the administration of justice is prejudiced.”
• “If a person to whom a court directs an order believes that order is incorrect the remedy is to appeal, but absent a stay, to comply promptly with the order pending appeal.”
• noting the attorney “has continued to minimize his misconduct”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).