holding that this court defers to the Board’s recommended disposition “unless the sanction is unwarranted or inconsistent with sanctions for comparable conduct”
How later courts described this case
- holding that this court defers to the Board’s recommended disposition “unless the sanction is unwarranted or inconsistent with sanctions for comparable conduct”
Written by the judges who cited it.
The opinion
SCHWELB, Associate Judge,
concurring:
*470 The primary purpose of the disciplinary system is to protect the public, and I question whether that purpose is served by treating “clinical depression” and “a personality disorder” as factors warranting more lenient sanctions. Drury’s affliction with these disorders provides little consolation to the client whose appeal was dismissed as a result of Drury’s aggravated neglect. Given Kersey 1 and its progeny, however, I join the judgment and opinion of the court.
. In re Kersey, 520 A.2d 321 (D.C.1987).