People v. Marmon

How courts have described this case

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• holding that disbarment of a lawyer is not punishment for double jeopardy purposes
• “where the respondent has already been punished by the criminal justice system, our aim in determining the level of discipline is not retribution, but the protection of the public”
• disciplinary sanction is not punishment for double jeopardy purposes; court noted that a contrary conclusion would lead to absurd result that lawyers convicted of criminal offenses could never be disciplined
• disbarment serves public safety purpose

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).