In re Sanna

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York

In re Sanna

154 A.D.2d 140, 552 N.Y.S.2d 52, 1990 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 2258

CourtAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York

DecidedFebruary 26, 1990

StatusPublished

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In re Sanna, 154 A.D.2d 140, 552 N.Y.S.2d 52, 1990 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 2258 (N.Y. Ct. App. 1990).

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Opinion

OPINION OF THE COURT

Per Curiam.

The respondent was admitted to practice by this court on March 16, 1977, under the name Richard Jeffrey Sanna.

On February 7, 1989, the respondent pleaded guilty in the Supreme Court, Suffolk County, to grand larceny in the third degree in violation of Penal Law § 155.35, which constitutes a class D felony. On June 16, 1989, the respondent was sentenced to a definite term of two months’ imprisonment and 600 hours of community service.

[141]*141Pursuant 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.

Mollen, P. J., Mangano, Thompson, Bracken and Rosenblatt, JJ., concur.

Ordered that pursuant to Judiciary Law § 90, effective immediately, the respondent Richard J. Sanna, admitted under the name Richard Jeffrey Sanna, 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 promptly 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, effective immediately, the respondent Richard J. Sanna 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.

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