Opinion
November 8, 1985
Motion insofar as it is to disbar respondent, denied, on the ground that the crime for which respondent was convicted is not cognizable as a felony in New York State.
Pursuant to statute (Judiciary Law § 90) the Grievance Committee for the Second and Eleventh Judicial Districts is hereby authorized to institute and prosecute a disciplinary proceeding in this court as petitioner against Jay Teitler based upon the acts of professional misconduct by said attorney which constituted the crimes for which he has been convicted.
The current suspension of the respondent from practice as an attorney shall continue pending the determination of the proceeding based upon the conviction of a "serious crime".
ROBERT H. STRAUS, Esq., Chief Counsel to the Grievance Committee for the Second and Eleventh Judicial Districts, Suite 1200, Municipal Building, Brooklyn, New York, is hereby appointed as attorney for the petitioner in such proceeding. Mollen, P.J., Lazer, Mangano, Gibbons and Kooper, JJ., concur.