IN RE: Ronald Sidney HALEY (2022)

Remanded to the Disciplinary Board for an evidentiary hearing. See per curiam.

ATTORNEY DISCIPLINARY PROCEEDING

We suspended respondent, Ronald Sidney Haley, Jr., for one year and one day, with all but six months deferred, subject to certain conditions. In re: Haley, 21-1466 (La. 12/7/21), 328 So. 3d 418 (“Haley I”). The Office of Disciplinary Counsel (“ODC”) now petitions this court to make the deferred portion of the suspension executory based upon allegations that respondent committed additional misconduct.

Supreme Court Rule XIX is silent with regard to the procedure for making a deferred suspension executory. However, we find the provisions of Supreme Court Rule XIX, Appendix C, Rule 6, which address the procedures for revocation of probation, provide a useful analogy. We will employ this procedural framework for addressing the instant petition.

Accordingly, the petition is remanded to the disciplinary board, which is directed to conduct an evidentiary hearing pursuant to the provisions of Supreme Court Rule XIX, Appendix C, Rule 6 and make an appropriate recommendation to this court on the question of whether the deferred portion of respondent's suspension should be made executory.