Matter of Terry

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• noting that the societal interests protected by defamation law and the Indiana Rules of Professional Conduct are different and are therefore independent of each other
• attorney disbarred for alleging without any basis that judge conspired to protect a criminal; court distinguished constitutional protection accorded in defamation actions from disciplinary proceeding and did not adopt same standard
• professional misconduct “is not punished for the benefit of the affected person; the wrong is against society as a whole, the preservation of a fair, impartial judicial system, and the system of justice as it has evolved for generations”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).