Board of Professional Responsibility, Wyoming State Bar v. Samuel P. Krone, WSB 6-3534

2023 WY 7, 523 P.3d 305

• Court: Wyoming Supreme Court
• Decided: January 25, 2023
• Docket: D-16-0005
• Status: Published

Opinion

IN THE SUPREME COURT, STATE OF WYOMING

2023 WY 7

October Term, A.D. 2022

January 25, 2023

BOARD OF PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY, WYOMING STATE BAR,

Petitioner, D-16-0005 v.

SAMUEL P. KRONE, WSB # 6-3534,

Respondent.

ORDER REINSTATING ATTORNEY TO THE PRACTICE OF LAW [¶1] This matter came before the Court upon a Report and Recommendation for Reinstatement, filed herein January 17, 2023, by a review panel of the Board of Professional Responsibility for the Wyoming State Bar, pursuant to a stipulation. By order entered May 31, 2018, this Court disbarred Respondent, with the period of disbarment beginning August 24, 2016. Bd. of Pro. Resp., Wyoming State Bar v. Krone, 2018 WY 55, 418 P.3d 253 (Wyo. 2018). Respondent subsequently sought reinstatement. See Rule 22, Wyoming Rules of Disciplinary Procedure. Now, after a careful review of Report and Recommendation for Reinstatement and the file, this Court finds the Report and Recommendation should be approved, confirmed and adopted by the Court and that Respondent Samuel P. Krone should be reinstated to the practice of law. It is, therefore,

[¶2] ADJUDGED AND ORDERED that the Board of Professional Responsibility’s Report and Recommendation for Reinstatement, filed herein January 17, 2023, which is attached hereto and incorporated herein, shall be, and the same hereby is, approved, confirmed and adopted by this Court; and it is further

[¶3] ADJUDGED AND ORDERED that the Respondent, Samuel P. Krone, be, and hereby is, reinstated to the practice of law in Wyoming, effective immediately; and it is further [¶4] ORDERED that, pursuant to Rule 9(b) Wyoming Rules of Disciplinary Procedure, this Order Reinstating Attorney to the Practice of Law, along with the incorporated Report and Recommendation for Reinstatement, shall be published in the Wyoming Reporter and the Pacific Reporter; and it is further

[¶5] ORDERED that the Clerk of this Court shall docket this Order Reinstating Attorney to the Practice of Law, along with the incorporated Report and Recommendation for Reinstatement, as a matter coming regularly before this Court as a public record; and it is further

[¶6] ORDERED that the Clerk of this Court transmit a copy of this Order Reinstating Attorney to the Practice of Law to the members of the Board of Professional Responsibility and to the clerks of the appropriate courts of the State of Wyoming.

[¶7] DATED this 25th day of January, 2023.

BY THE COURT:

/s/

KATE M. FOX Chief Justice