In re Haendel, 18-BG-522
Decision Date | 03 January 2019 |
Docket Number | No. 18-BG-522,18-BG-522 |
Citation | 199 A.3d 625 (Mem) |
Parties | IN RE Dan HAENDEL, Respondent. A Member of the Bar of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals (Bar Registration No. 287326) |
Court | D.C. Court of Appeals |
In this case, the Board on Professional Responsibility has recommended that respondent Dan Haendel be disbarred from the practice of law after he entered an Alford1 plea in the state of Virginia to committing one count of Taking Indecent Liberties with a Child,2 and one count of Use of Communications Systems to Facilitate Certain Offenses Involving Children.3 Neither respondent nor Disciplinary Counsel filed any exceptions to the Board's report.
Under D.C. Bar R. XI, § 9 (h)(2), "if no exceptions are filed to the Board's report, the [c]ourt will enter an order imposing the discipline recommended by the Board upon the expiration of the time permitted for filing exceptions." See also In re Viehe , 762 A.2d 542, 543 (D.C. 2000) (). We previously held that a violation of the 1981 version of Va. Code. § 18.2-370 constituted a crime of moral turpitude per se .4 We have reviewed the changes reflected in the current version of the statute, and these changes do not alter our decision that violations of this statute constitute crimes of moral turpitude. Therefore, having found respondent committed at least one crime of moral turpitude per se , we impose the required sanction: we disbar him from the practice of law. See In re Colson , 412 A.2d 1160, 1165 (D.C. 1979) (en banc); D.C. Code § 11-2503 (2013 Repl.).
ORDERED that Dan Haendel is hereby disbarred from the practice of law. For purposes of reinstatement the period of respondent's disbarment will not begin to run until such time as he files a D.C. Bar R. XI, § 14 (g) affidavit.
So ordered.
2 Va. Code § 18.2-370.
3 Va. Code § 18.2-374.3.
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