In re Murphy

This is a proceeding to review a recommendation of the Disciplinary Board of the State Bar (board) that petitioner be suspended from the practice of law for three years on conditions of probation, including actual suspension for one year. Petitioner was admitted to practice in December 1953 and has no prior record of discipline.

On February 7, 1972, petitioner was convicted, under section 25540 of the Corporations Code, of five counts charging him with offering and selling securities in violation of the conditions of a stock permit issued by the Commissioner of Corporations. Thereafter this court referred the matter to the State Bar for hearing and recommendation on the question whether the facts and circumstances surrounding petitioner’s commission of the crime of which he was convicted involved moral turpitude and, if so, the nature and extent of discipline to be imposed. The board determined that moral turpitude was involved and recommended suspension as hereinabove- indicated. 1 Petitioner’s conviction was affirmed in People v. Murphy, 35 Cal.App.3d 905 [ 111 Cal.Rptr. 295 ].

*536 The record shows that petitioner was employed in September 1968 by a group of doctors…