IN RE: Rodney Michael JONES (2018)

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

IN RE: Rodney Michael JONES An Administratively Suspended Member of the Bar of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, Bar Registration No. 993968

No. 17–BG–1251

Decided: January 25, 2018

BEFORE:  Beckwith, Associate Judge, and Washington and Farrell, Senior Judges.

ORDER

On consideration of the certified order of the Court of Appeals of Maryland disbarring respondent by consent from the practice of law in that jurisdiction;  this court's December 5, 2017, order suspending respondent pending resolution of this matter and directing him to show cause why reciprocal discipline should not be imposed, the response thereto, and the statement of Disciplinary Counsel;  respondent's D.C. Bar R. XI, § 14 (g) affidavit;  and the December 29, 2017, letter from Disciplinary Counsel stating that any discipline should be imposed nunc pro tunc to December 5, 2017, it is

ORDERED that Rodney Michael Jones is hereby disbarred from the practice of law in the District of Columbia nunc pro tunc to December 5, 2017. See In re Sibley, 990 A.2d 483 (D.C. 2010), and In re Fuller, 930 A.2d 194, 198 (D.C. 2007) (rebuttable presumption of identical reciprocal discipline applies to all cases in which the respondent does not participate).

PER CURIAM