Florida Bar v. Diamond

In Florida Bar v. Diamond, 548 So. 2d 1107 (Fla. 1989), the lawyer was convicted of six counts of federal mail fraud and wire fraud, and the Court approved the recommended sanction of three years' suspension. Diamond involved copious mitigation: Diamond was one of twenty-six defendants named in a forty-nine count federal indictment, and the federal judge who presided over the trial testified in the disciplinary proceeding on Diamond's behalf, stating that notwithstanding the verdict, he did not perceive Diamond as an active participant in an act of fraud; Diamond already had completed his federal sentence and his civil rights had been restored; the President of The Florida Bar and the Mayor of Miami Beach and others testified as to Diamond's good reputation and his amenability to rehabilitation; and Diamond had an otherwise unblemished record.