JUSTICE THOMAS delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion. Chief Justice Kilbride and Justices Freeman, Garman, Karmeier, Burke, and Theis concurred in the judgment and opinion. In the circuit court of Lake County, Elias Gutierrez pled guilty in 2007 to predatory criminal sexual assault of a child and received a 20-year sentence.
JUSTICE GARMAN delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion. Chief Justice Kilbride and Justices Freeman, Thomas, Karmeier, Burke, and Theis concurred in the judgment and opinion. The attorney in this disciplinary proceeding was charged in 2007 with two counts of unauthorized practice of law and one count of misrepresentation to a tribunal, all stemming from the manner in which he handled a previously imposed 18-month suspension which began October 17, 2005.