Miss. Bar v. Jones
| Docket Number: | 2004-BD-00433-SCT | |
| Supreme Court: | Opinion Link Opinion Date: 12-09-2004 Opinion Author: Cobb, P.J. Holding: Leland H. Jones, III, is hereby disbarred from the practice of law within the State of Mississippi, and this Order shall constitute notice of disbarment in this cause. |
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| Additional Case Information: |
Topic: Bar discipline - Miss.R.Disc. 6(a) - Disbarment Judge(s) Concurring: Smith, C.J., Waller, P.J., Easley, Carlson, Graves, Dickinson and Randolph, JJ. Non Participating Judge(s): Diaz, J. |
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| Note: | 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 Chancery and Circuit Courts of Leflore 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. | |
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| Appellant: | The Mississippi Bar |
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| Appellee: | Leland H. Jones, III |
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| Topic: | Bar discipline - Miss.R.Disc. 6(a) - Disbarment |
| Summary of the Facts: | The Mississippi Bar filed a formal complaint against Leland H. Jones, III, asserting that Jones was convicted, upon a plea of guilty, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi of the offense of concealment of assets from a bankruptcy trustee, 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 judgment of the District Court evidencing Jones’s conviction. Under the provisions of Rule 6(a) of the Rules of Discipline for the Mississippi State Bar, a certified copy of the judgment of conviction of a felony, subject to exceptions not applicable here, is conclusive evidence of the conviction and requires his disbarment and the striking of his name from the rolls of those licensed to practice law in the State of Mississippi. |
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