Car Trouble

From the California Bar Journal:

[An attorney] was suspended for two years, stayed, placed on three years ofprobation with an actual 18-month suspension and was ordered to provehis rehabilitation, take the MPRE and comply with rule 9.20. The ordertook effect Sept. 7, 2008.

In 2007, [the attorney] pleaded no contest to receiving stolen property, a misdemeanor involving moral turpitude. 

Forseveral months in late 2005, he kept at his home a car that was stolenby his son, who told [him] he had bought the car for $500 from itsowner. The car was not street legal because of body damage, so [he], who believed his son, agreed to store it in his garage. Helater discovered his son obtained the car after promising to have itrepaired and to pay the registration fees and register the car in thename of the owner’s daughter. The promises were false.

Following his plea, [he] notified the bar of his conviction. 

He was privately reproved in 1982.

In mitigation, he cooperated with the bar’s investigation, pleaded no contest to the charge and self-reported to the bar.

(Mike Frisch)