Raghubir Gupta and Benjamin Turner were each disbarred by the Appellate Division, Second Department, on Wednesday as a result of their separate felony convictions. State judiciary law provides for automatic disbarment when attorneys are convicted of felonies.
Gupta was originally disbarred in 2010 after a Southern District jury found him guilty of immigration fraud. He was sentenced to 51 months in prison and fined $10,000. But in 2012, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit vacated his conviction on the grounds that the district court violated his Sixth Amendment right to a fair trial because the courtroom had been closed to the public (NYLJ, Nov. 14, 2012).
