Matter of Stuart; Grievance Committee for the Second
Motion No: 2003-09401
Slip Opinion No: 2006 NYSlipOp 60562(U)
Decided on January 11, 2006
Appellate Division, Second Department, Motion Decision
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
This motion is uncorrected and is not subject to publication in the Official Reports.


Supreme Court of the State of New York

Appellate Division: Second Judicial Department

M34480

K/nal

A. GAIL PRUDENTI, P.J.

ANITA R. FLORIO

HOWARD MILLER

ROBERT W. SCHMIDT

THOMAS A. ADAMS, JJ.

2003-09401

In the Matter of Claude Nelson Stuart,

a suspended attorney.

(Attorney Registration No. 2238061)

DECISION & ORDER ON MOTION

Motion by the respondent, inter alia, for leave to renew and/or reargue an opinion and order of this court dated September 26, 2005, or alternatively, for leave to appeal to the Court of Appeals from the opinion and order. In the opinion and order dated September 26, 2005, the respondent was suspended from the practice of law for a period of three years, commencing October 26, 2005, after a hearing before a Special Referee, who sustained one charge of professional misconduct alleging that the respondent gave false information to a Justice of the Supreme Court during a criminal trial. The respondent was admitted to the Bar at a term of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the Second Judicial Department on January 18, 1989.

Upon the papers filed in support of the motion and the papers submitted in response thereto, it is

ORDERED that the motion is denied.

PRUDENTI, P.J., FLORIO, H. MILLER, SCHMIDT and ADAMS, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

James Edward Pelzer

Clerk of the Court