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Acting unprofessionally is doing just what you saw them doing.
FFS.

The Supreme Court authorizes the bar to police its own members under the rules of professional conduct adopted by the State.
Please leave the ****ing lawyering to the lawyers and don't worry your little layperson head about it, ok?

Let me break it down for you: A pardon is an acceptance of guilt of the crime, and an excuse from all punishment for the statutory infraction.

It does not excuse an ethics committee of calling you on the carpet and pointing out that admission of guilt of such an infraction would be a violation of the ethical duties of the profession.
That's not a statutory criminal penalty, which is all the pardon protects you from.
If a PI lawyer got popped for doing cocaine and ****ing hookers and Brandon pardoned then, the bar could still take action against them.

 

Sure bud, the state bar has no ability to discipline its lawyers for showing their asses in public.

I'm sure that's how that works.

 

The bar is not what is meting out punishment here. They are also not determining whether or not punishment happens at all. What about that do you not understand? The COURT is. I gave you a link showing that it is the Missouri Supreme Court that determines if punishment happens, or not and what the punishment will be. The bar is not doing the punishing. The court is. All that the bar is doing is referring it to the court. THAT is the difference. If it was JUST the bar then I'd understand because that is standard. But its not. The court is the one handing out the sentence in this.

As far as your excuse of acting unprofessionally...are you telling me that you believe a court should have the power to police your conduct every single minute of every single day regardless if you are working or not? Regardless if it had any relation to your work or not? As a lawyer I would HOPE that you would understand how wrong such would be.

 

Again, its not the state bar that is doing the disciplining here. It is the Missouri State Supreme Court.

 

Which, again, is what occurs in every other state whether by direct action of an office appointed by the court as in Missouri or by the State Bar as invested by the State Supreme Court.
The underlying mechanism is the same: A lawyer's ethical duties can be breached even though they received a pardon from criminal sanction, because accepting a pardon means you were guilty of the offense and often that violates the rules of professional conduct.
What you're not grasping is that a pardon only reaches criminal sanction authorized by the statute one was pardoned of, it does not mean that the person pardoned gets to keep their card unmolested or at all.
If a child molester got pardoned they'd lose their card. You understand that, right?

 

Its the analogous organ to a state bar ethics committee for Missouri. The same rules apply IE the rules of professional conduct.