The Supreme Court has acknowledged it had the wrong guy when it suspended a prominent Massachusetts lawyer and threatened him with disbarment.

The court on Tuesday attributed its earlier action to "mistaken identity."

Christopher Patrick Sullivan is a partner with the Robins Kaplan firm in Boston and the incoming president of the Massachusetts Bar Association. Sullivan is back in the court's good graces.

Court spokeswoman Kathy Arberg said the clerk's office mixed up Sullivan with a similarly named lawyer who had been disbarred by a New York court. The other man is in prison in Vermont after a conviction for drunken driving that resulted in the death of a 71-year-old woman.