# In Re Spencer

> Illinois Supreme Court · October 5, 1977 · 68 Ill. 2d 496

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9742954

## Case

- **Full name:** In Re STEVEN CYRUS SPENCER, Attorney, Respondent
- **Court:** Illinois Supreme Court
- **Decided:** October 5, 1977
- **Citations:** 68 Ill. 2d 496; 12 Ill. Dec. 587; 370 N.E.2d 210; 1977 Ill. LEXIS 394
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Dooley
- **Judges:** Goldenhersh, Dooley
- **Cited by:** 12 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## Opinion text

MR. JUSTICE DOOLEY, specially concurring:
As I stated in a specially concurring opinion in In re Walker (1977), 67 Ill. 2d 48, 52 , wherever the conduct justifies no greater penalty than censure, it should not be memorialized in the opinions of this court. It can be adequately accomplished by an order.
As I point out in my dissent in In re Madsen (1977), 68 Ill. 2d 472, 494-95 , the penalty here is less than imposed in Madsen the same day, although the charges against Madsen were comparably inconsequential.

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