Appellate Division: Second Judicial Department

M50484

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A. GAIL PRUDENTI, P.J.

HOWARD MILLER

ROBERT W. SCHMIDT

STEPHEN G. CRANE

DAVID S. RITTER, JJ.

1993-04807 In the Matter of Sol Wachtler, admitted as Solomon Wachtler, a disbarred attorney. (Attorney Registration No. 1189752)

DECISION & ORDER ON MOTION FOR REINSTATEMENT

Motion by the respondent, Sol Wachtler, for an order reinstating him as an attorney and counselor-at-law or, in the alternative, referring this matter to the Committee on Character and Fitness for a hearing and report. The respondent was admitted to the Bar at a term of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the Second Judicial Department on April 4, 1956, under the name Solomon Wachtler. By opinion and order of this court dated August 2, 1993, the respondent was disbarred upon his submission of a resignation, dated July 20, 1993, which followed his plea of guilty in the United States District Court in Trenton, New Jersey, on March 31, 1993, to a violation of 18 USC § 875(c), a Federal felony. The respondent's first application for reinstatement was denied by decision and order on application of this court dated April 14, 2003.

Upon the papers filed in support of the motion and the papers filed in response thereto, it is

ORDERED that the motion is granted to the extent that the matter is referred to the Committee on Character and Fitness to investigate and report on the respondent's current fitness to be an attorney, including but not limited to an updated report from his treating physician, and the motion is otherwise held in abeyance in the interim.

PRUDENTI, P.J., MILLER, SCHMIDT, CRANE and RITTER, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

James Edward Pelzer

Clerk of the Court