Opinion

Dayton Bar Ass'n v. Sams

  • 41 Ohio St. 3d 11
  • 535 N.E.2d 298
  • 1989 Ohio LEXIS 14
Court
Ohio Supreme Court
Filed
Mar 15, 1989
Status
Published
Author
Wright
On the bench
Brown, Douglas, Holmes, Moyer, Resnick, Sweeney, Wright
Cited by
5 cases

male attorney suspended for six months after he knowingly solicited female client for purpose of engaging in sexual intercourse in exchange for legal services and purchased controlled substance from client

How later courts described this case

  • male attorney suspended for six months after he knowingly solicited female client for purpose of engaging in sexual intercourse in exchange for legal services and purchased controlled substance from client

Written by the judges who cited it.

The opinion

Wright, J.,

dissenting. I must respectfully dissent. Respondent’s gross violations of DR 1-102(A)(3) and DR 1-102(A)(6) were too serious to merit the sanction invoked by the majority. I would suspend respondent at a minimum for an eighteen-month period, and I would consider a period of probation thereafter.

Resnick, J., concurs in the foregoing dissenting opinion.

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