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· 6/7/1991

Office of Disciplinary Counsel v. Shorall

Citations

  • 592 A.2d 1285
  • 527 Pa. 413
  • 1991 Pa. LEXIS 126

How courts have described this case

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  • three year suspension, despite also providing the FBI with a false story supporting his client and testifying untruthfully at grand jury
  • “Moral turpitude ... involves ‘anything done knowingly contrary to justice, honesty, principal or good morals.’ ”
  • “[I]n light of the evidence offered in mitigation, we believe that the ODC’s pursuit of the extreme sanction of disbarment is [ ] inappropriate as being too severe and unjustified.”
  • “[I]n light of the evidence offered in mitigation, we believe that the ODC’s pursuit of the extreme sanction of disbarment is [ ] inappropriate as being too severe and unjustified.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Nix, Larsen, Flaherty, McDermott, Papadakos

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