Opinion
November 27, 1936.
Einar Chrystie, for the petitioner.
No appearance for the respondent.
Present — MARTIN, P.J., McAVOY, O'MALLEY, TOWNLEY and DORE, JJ.
The Court of General Sessions of the County of New York on October 7, 1936, sentenced the respondent to a term of imprisonment in the State Prison, following his conviction for the crime of extortion, which crime is a felony.
Section 477 Jud. of the Judiciary Law provides: "Any person being an attorney and counsellor-at-law, who shall be convicted of a felony, shall, upon such conviction, cease to be an attorney and counsellor-at-law, or to be competent to practice law as such."
Subdivision 3 of section 88 Jud. of the Judiciary Law provides: "Whenever any attorney and counsellor-at-law shall be convicted of a felony, there may be presented to the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court a certified or exemplified copy of the judgment of such conviction, and thereupon the name of the person so convicted shall, by order of the court, be stricken from the roll of attorneys."
The respondent, accordingly, should be disbarred.
Respondent disbarred.