Supreme Court of Florida

In attorney disciplinary proceedings, a referee's report recommending that respondent-attorney be found guilty of professional misconduct and disbarred is disapproved as to certain Rules violations, but otherwise the report is approved and respondent is disbarred over his challenges to: 1) the referee's failure to find several additional mitigating factors; and 2) the recommendation of disbarment.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/13/2007
• Published 12/13/2007

Judges

• PER CURIAM.

Court

• Supreme Court of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• John F. Harkness, Jr., Executive Director, Kenneth Lawrence Marvin, Director of Lawyer Regulation, and James N. Watson, Jr., Bar Counsel, The Florida Bar, Tallahassee, FL, for Complainant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Scott K. Tozian and Gwendolyn H. Hinkle of Smith, Tozian and Hinkle, P.A., Tampa, Florida, and James W. Radloff of Radloff and Radloff, P.A., Jacksonville, FL, for Respondent.