ALBANY – A disciplinary committee may use the record of a disbarred attorney’s criminal case in a proceeding where he is seeking reinstatement, even though the conviction was set aside and sealed, an appeals court decided Thursday.
The Appellate Division, Third Department, panel unanimously denied James Hennessey Jr.’s motion to preclude his 2012 guilty plea to two counts of second-degree aggravated harassment as hate crimes in a reinstatement proceeding before the Third Department’s Committee on Professional Standards.
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