Matter of Disciplinary Proceeding Against Curran

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• holding that presumptive sanction for two counts of vehicular homicide is a two year suspension
• finding that “vigilant protection of the public from the dishonest and the incompetent will do more to enhance public confidence in the bar than enforcement of our rules having a more tangential relationship to practice”
• considering Curran’s interim suspension as a mitigating 21 No. 202153-1 factor
• lawyer with blood alcohol level of .18 drove his vehicle off the road killing two passengers
• \RLD 1.1(a) speaks to the standards governing discipline in order to encourage obedience to the law. We decline to interpret this rule as speaking to conduct tending to embarrass the bar.\
• “RLD 1.1(a) speaks to the standards governing discipline in order to encourage obedience to the law. We decline to interpret this rule as speaking to conduct tending to embarrass the bar.”

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