SACRAMENTO A new wrinkle was added to the ongoing saga over four dozen attorney discipline cases when the State Bar recently filed charges against Lorna Brown, the Berkeley lawyer accused of smuggling documents out of jail for convicted killer Yusuf Bey IV.
In a stipulation filed with the State Bar Court last year, Brown agreed to a six-month suspension of her law license and two years’ probation. But the state Supreme Court on June 21 rejected Brown’s punishment deal, returning her disciplinary case and 23 others to the bar with vague instructions to reconsider them “in light of the applicable attorney discipline standards.”
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