BOARD OF PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY, WYOMING STATE BAR V. STAN DECKER CANNON, Attorney No. 6-3249

BOARD OF PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY, WYOMING STATE BAR V. STAN DECKER CANNON, Attorney No. 6-3249
2008 WY 82
189 P.3d 857
Case Number: D-08-0002
Decided: 07/16/2008

April Term, A.D. 2008

BOARD OF PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY, WYOMING STATE BAR,

Petitioner,

v.

STAN DECKER CANNON, Attorney No. 6-3249,

Respondent.

Order Suspending Attorney From the Practice of Law

[¶1]      This matter came before the Court upon a "Report and Recommendation," filed herein May 5, 2008, by the Board of Professional Responsibility for the Wyoming State Bar.  After a careful review of the Board of Professional Responsibility's Report and Recommendation, the materials attached thereto, the Respondent's "Section 16 Affidavit and Stipulation to Discipline," and the file, this Court finds that the Report and Recommendation should be approved, confirmed, and adopted by the Court; and that the Respondent Stan Decker Cannon should be suspended from the practice of law for a period of two months, beginning August 15, 2008.  It is, therefore,

[¶2]      ADJUDGED AND ORDERED that the Board of Professional Responsibility's Report and Recommendation, which is attached hereto and incorporated herein, shall be, and the same hereby is, approved, confirmed, and adopted by this Court; and it is further

[¶3]      ADJUDGED AND ORDERED that, as a result of the conduct set forth in the Report and Recommendation, Respondent Stan Decker Cannon shall be, and hereby is, suspended from the practice of law for a period of two months, with that period of suspension beginning on August 15, 2008; and it is further

[¶4]      ORDERED that, pursuant to Rule 26 of the Disciplinary Code for the Wyoming State Bar, Stan Decker Cannon shall reimburse the Wyoming State Bar the amount of $250.00, representing the costs incurred in handling this matter, as well as pay an administrative fee of $2,000.00, by paying the total amount of $2,250.00 to the Clerk of the Board of Professional Responsibility, on or before November 1, 2008; and it is further

[¶5]      ORDERED that, pursuant to Rule 4(c) of the Disciplinary Code for the Wyoming State Bar, this Order Suspending Attorney from the Practice of Law, along with the incorporated Report and Recommendation, shall be published in the Wyoming Reporter and the Pacific Reporter; and it is further

[¶6]      ORDERED that the Clerk of this Court shall docket this Order Suspending Attorney from the Practice of Law, along with the Report and Recommendation, as a matter coming regularly before this Court as a public record.  However, Respondent's "Section 16 Affidavit and Stipulation to Discipline" shall not be publicly disclosed nor made available for use in any other proceeding, except upon order of this Court; and it is further

[¶7]      ORDERED that the Clerk of this Court transmit a copy of this Order Suspending Attorney from the Practice of Law to the members of the Board of Professional Responsibility, and the clerks of the appropriate courts of the State of Wyoming.

DATED this 15th day of July, 2008.

                                                                        BY THE COURT:

                                                                        /s/ Barton R. Voigt                                       

                                                                        BARTON R. VOIGT

                                                                        Chief Justice