Miss. Bar v. McInnis
| Docket Number: | 2004-BD-01053-SCT | |
| Supreme Court: | Opinion Link Opinion Date: 12-16-2004 Holding: Motion of The Mississippi Bar to Disbar Attorney is granted. Order of Disbarment entered. |
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| Additional Case Information: |
Topic: Attorney discipline - Automatic disbarment - Miss.R.Disc. 6 Non Participating Judge(s): Diaz, J. |
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| Note: | Neil E. McInnis is hereby disbarred from the practice of law in the State of Mississippi, and this order shall constitute notice of disbarment in this cause. His name shall be immediately stricken from the rolls of The Mississippi Bar. The Clerk of the Supreme Court shall immediately forward attested copies of this order to: the Clerks of the Circuit and Chancery Courts of Forrest County; the Clerks of the United States District Courts for the Northern and Southern Districts of Mississippi; the Clerk of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit; and the Clerk of the Supreme Court of the United States. Likewise, the Clerk of this Court shall forward attested copies of this order to Neil E. McInnis and to the Executive Director of The Mississippi Bar. The Bar shall recover from Neil E. McInnis all of its costs and expenses of this disciplinary action. | |
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| Appellant: | The Mississippi Bar |
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| Appellee: | Neil E. McInnis |
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| Topic: | Attorney discipline - Automatic disbarment - Miss.R.Disc. 6 |
| Summary of the Facts: | The Mississippi Bar has filed a formal complaint to disbar attorney Neil McInnis, asserting that McInnis was convicted, upon a plea of guilty in the Forrest County Circuit Court, on two counts of the crime of embezzlement, a felony within the meaning of the term as used in Rule 6 of the Rules of Discipline of the Mississippi Bar. |
| Summary of Opinion Analysis: | The Bar submitted a certified copy of the order of conviction. No appeal of McInnis’s conviction or sentence has been filed, and the time for filing an appeal has expired. The crime to which McInnis pled guilty is among those contemplated by Rule 6 and requires his disbarment. |
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