In re Linn

183 A.D.2d 399, 592 N.Y.S.2d 597, 1992 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 13579

• Court: Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
• Decided: December 7, 1992
• Status: Published

Opinion

OPINION OF THE COURT

Per Curiam.

On June 26, 1992, the respondent was convicted in the County Court, Westchester County, upon his plea of guilty, of the crime of grand larceny in the second degree in violation of Penal Law § 155.40, a class C felony.

Pursuant to Judiciary Law § 90 (4), the respondent ceased to be an attorney and counselor-at-law upon his conviction of a felony.

Accordingly, the petitioner’s motion is granted. The respondent is disbarred and his name is stricken from the roll of attorneys and counselors-at-law, effective immediately.

Mangano, P. J., Thompson, Bracken, Sullivan and Ritter, JJ., concur.

Ordered that pursuant to Judiciary Law § 90, effective immediately, the respondent, Michael S. Linn, is disbarred and his name is stricken from the roll of attorneys and counselors-at-law; and it is further,

Ordered that the respondent shall comply with this Court’s rules governing the conduct of disbarred, suspended and resigned attorneys (22 NYCRR 691.10); and it is further,

Ordered that pursuant to Judiciary Law § 90, the respondent, Michael S. Linn, is commanded to desist and refrain (1) from practicing law in any form, either as principal or as agent, clerk or employee of another, (2) from appearing as an attorney or counselor-at-law before any court, Judge, Justice, board, commission or other public authority, (3) from giving to another an opinion as to the law or its application or any advice in relation thereto, and (4) from holding himself out in any way as an attorney and counselor-at-law.