Opinion
Case No. SC11-434.
April 25, 2011.
Lower Tribunal No(s). 2011-90,154(OSC).
This is before the Court on The Florida Bar's Petition for Contempt and Order to Show Cause.
The Court having issued its Order to Show Cause to respondent and respondent having failed to file a response to said Order to Show Cause,
IT IS ORDERED that respondent is held in contempt of this Court's order. As a sanction, respondent is suspended from the practice of law. Respondent is currently a delinquent member of The Florida Bar and ineligible to practice law, therefore, this suspension is effective immediately. Respondent shall fully comply with Rule Regulating the Florida Bar 3-5.1(g). Further, respondent shall remain suspended until such time as he complies the Court's Order of Diversion, and until further order of this Court.
Judgment is entered for The Florida Bar, 651 East Jefferson Street, Tallahassee, Florida 32399-2300, for recovery of costs from John Steele Patterson in the amount of $1,250.00, for which sum let execution issue.
Not final until time expires to file motion for rehearing, and if filed, determined. The filing of a motion for rehearing shall not alter the effective date of this suspension.
CANADY, C.J., and PARIENTE, LEWIS, QUINCE, POLSTON, LABARGA, and PERRY, JJ., concur.