In re Kresel
This text of 241 A.D. 18 (In re Kresel) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
Opinion
The respondent was admitted to practice as an attorney and counselor at law in the State of New York; on July 17, 1900, at a term of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, First Department.
[19]*19On November 27, 1933, the respondent was convicted at Trial Term, Part I, of the Supreme Court of the State of New York held in and for the county of New York, of a violation of section 305 of the Penal Law, which crime is a felony, and sentenced to imprisonment in the State prison.
Section 477 of the Judiciary Law provides: “ Any person being an attorney and counselor-at-law, who shall be convicted of a felony, shall, upon such conviction, cease to be an attorney and counselor-at-law or to be competent to practice law as such.”
Subdivision 3 of section 88 of the Judiciary Law provides: “ Whenever any attorney and counselor-at-law shall be convicted of a felony, there may be presented to the appellate division of the supreme court a certificate or exemplified copy of the judgment of such conviction, and thereupon the name of the person so convicted shall, by order of the court, be stricken from the roll of attorneys.”
The statute is mandatory, and requires, therefore, that the respondent be disbarred.
Present — Finch, P. J., Martin, O’Malley, Townley and Glennon, JJ.
Respondent disbarred.
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241 A.D. 18, 270 N.Y.S. 879, 1934 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 8156, Counsel Stack Legal Research, https://law.counselstack.com/opinion/in-re-kresel-nyappdiv-1934.