# Office of Disciplinary Counsel v. Grigsby

> Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · February 5, 1981 · 493 Pa. 194

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9703123

## Case

- **Full name:** OFFICE OF DISCIPLINARY COUNSEL, Petitioner, v. John T. GRIGSBY, III, Respondent
- **Court:** Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
- **Decided:** February 5, 1981
- **Citations:** 493 Pa. 194; 425 A.2d 730; 1981 Pa. LEXIS 668
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Dissent by Roberts
- **Judges:** O'Brien, Roberts, Larsen, Flah-Erty, Kauffman
- **Cited by:** 76 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- holding disbarment is an appropriate remedy for false swearing

## Opinion text

ROBERTS, Justice,
dissenting.
In April of 1979, when this Court was presented with respondent’s record, former Chief Justice Eagen and I took a minority view and agreed with the recommendation of the Disciplinary Board that this Court should have suspended respondent for a period of six months, and should not have entered a mere public censure. Although this Court is now presented with additional, substantiated charges of serious misconduct by respondent, including a falsely sworn application for a driver’s license, there is, in light of the majority’s previous public censure, no basis in “fairness for disbarment. The charges now before us all pre-date this Court’s public censure. There is no evidence that, since this censure, *203 respondent has engaged in any improper conduct. On this record, I would agree with the Disciplinary Board that suspension, and not disbarment, is the appropriate penalty. In view of the seriousness of the present charges, however, I would suspend respondent for a period of three years, rather than one year as recommended by the Board.
O’BRIEN, C. J., joins this dissenting opinion.

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