A New York lawyer who was accused of attacking a woman while intoxicated and who later pleaded guilty to reckless assault in the third degree received a four-month suspension from a state appeals court.
The court declined to impose the recommended sanction of a censure, noting in its Feb. 4 opinion the “seriousness” of the assault on “an intimate partner.”
John Brandon Walker was accused of attacking a woman in his apartment after the two met for drinks, according to the court. Walker says he blacked out but the woman said that he “grabbed her by the neck, choked her, ...
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