STATE OF MICHfGAN Attorney Discipline Board
fiLED A1 rOgNl~ O'SCtPLtNE BOARO 09 MAR 32
PH 12: 01
GRIEVANCE ADMINISTRATOR, Attorney Grievance Commission,
Petitioner,
v SHELLEY STASSON, P 30259, Respondent. ------------,
Case No. 07-165-GA
AMENDED ORDER AFFIRMING HEARING PANEL ORDER OF SUSPENSION OF FOUR YEARS AND RESTITUTION WITH CONDITIONS (*As to Cost Paragraph)
Issued by the Attorney Discipline Board 211 W. Fort St., Ste. 1410, Detroit, MI
Respondent, Shelley Stasson, petitioned the Attorney Discipline Board for review of a hearing panel order of suspension and restitution with conditions entered November 26,2008. The Attorney Discipline Board has conducted review proceedings in accordance with MeR 9.118 on March 11,2008 1 ; the Board has reviewed the record before the hearing panel and has considered the briefs and arguments submitted· by the parties; and the Board is otherwise fully advised,
NOW THEREFORE,
IT IS ORDERED that the hearing panel's order suspending respondent from the practice of law in Michigan for a period of four years commencing December 18, 2008 is AFFIRMED.
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the conditions imposed by the hearing panel, including the order to pay restitution to complainant Donald Basquin in the amount of $29,178.88, are AFFIRMED. Respondent shall pay restitution to Mr. Basquin on or before May 20,2009. Respondent shaH file written proof of payment with the Attorney Grievance Commission and the Attorney Discipline Board within 10 days of the payment of restitution.
1 At the commencement of the hearing. respondent made an oral motion for adjournment. which motion was considered and denied.
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that respondent shall, on or before September 20, 2009, pay costs previously assessed in the hearing panel order of November 26,2008 in the amount of $4,384.56, together with costs incurred by the Attorney Discipline Board for the transcript of review proceedings conducted on March 11, 2009 in the amount of *$93.00 for a total amount due of $4,477.56. Check or money order shall be made payable to the State Bar of Michigan, but submitted to the Attorney Discipline Board [211 West Fort St., Ste. 1410, Detroit, MI 48226] for proper crediting. (See attached instruction
sheet).
DATED: March 20, 2009
By:
Board members William J. Danhof, Thomas G. Kienbaum, Andrea L. Solak, Rosalind E. Griffin, M.D., Carl E. Ver Beek, Craig H. Lubben and James M. Cameron, Jr. concur in this decision.
Board members William L. Matthews, C.P.A. and Billy Ben Baumann, M.D. were absent and did not participate.