Monday, October 10, 2016

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has disbarred an attorney convicted of criminal offenses and disbarred in New Hampshire.

From the summary on the web page of the Board of Bar Overseers

On May 23, 2013, Lisa A. Biron, who was admitted to the bar of the Commonwealth on December 8, 2008, was found guilty by a jury in the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire on one count of transportation with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity (18 U.S.C. §§2423(a), and 2427), six counts of sexual exploitation of children (18 U.S.C. §§2251(a) and 2256) and one count of possession of child pornography (18 U.S.C. §§2252A(a)(5)(B)). The conviction resulted from the respondent’s conduct in bringing a minor to Canada to engage in sexual activity for the production of child pornography and six instances of causing sexually explicit conduct by a minor for the purpose of producing a video depiction of the conduct. The respondent was sentenced to forty years of imprisonment, to be followed by supervised release for life.

On October 17, 2013, the respondent was temporarily suspended from the Massachusetts bar as a result of the New Hampshire conviction. She timely filed an affidavit of compliance. Further proceedings were stayed pending the conclusion of the respondent’s appeal of her conviction. In November of 2014, the respondent’s conviction was affirmed by the First Circuit, and in March of 2015, the respondent’s petition for certiorari was denied by the United States Supreme Court.

On May 28, 2015, the New Hampshire Supreme Court entered an order disbarring the respondent as a result of the conviction. On December 22, 2015, bar counsel filed a petition for reciprocal discipline with the Supreme Judicial Court for Suffolk County based upon the respondent’s disbarment in New Hampshire. After a telephone hearing, the Court (Botsford, J.) on June 10, 2016, entered a judgment of disbarment, retroactive to the date of the respondent’s temporary suspension, with the condition that the respondent’s reinstatement to the Massachusetts bar shall be conditioned upon her reinstatement in New Hampshire.

Salon reported on the criminal case

A New Hampshire lawyer who works with a virulently anti-gay Christian-right organization has been found guilty of child pornography charges after videotaping her own daughter having sex with two men on multiple occasions.

(Mike Frisch)

https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/legal_profession/2016/10/the-massachusetts-supreme-judicial-court-has-disbarred-an-attorney-from-the-summary-on-the-web-page-of-the-board-of-bar-over.html