I am watching a hearing on negotiated discipline before a District of Columbia Hearing Committee in this linked matter where the agreed sanction is a public censure.

The process (which can only be accessed in real time) exemplifies what is wrong with D.C.’s due process obsessed disciplinary system. 

Simply stated, it is easier to plead guilty to murder in D.C. than to stipulate to a public censure.

This is NOT the fault of the hearing committee. It is the Board on Professional Responsibility and its ridiculously overstaffed Office of the Executive Attorney which has crafted this script.