Youngstown Attorney Suspended
2009-1534. Mahoning Cty. Bar Assn. v. DiMartino, Slip Opinion No. 2010-Ohio-247.
On Certified Report by the Board of Commissioners on Grievances and Discipline, No. 08-055. The stay of the one-year suspension imposed on Dennis A. DiMartino, Attorney Registration No. 0039270, on July 18, 2007 is lifted, and the one-year suspension is reinstated. In addition, in this case respondent is suspended from the practice of law in Ohio for six months, to run concurrently with the one-year suspension.
Moyer, C.J., and Pfeifer, Lundberg Stratton, O'Connor, O'Donnell, Lanzinger, and Cupp, JJ., concur.
Opinion: http://www.supremecourt.ohio.gov/rod/docs/pdf/0/2010/2010-Ohio-247.pdf 
(Feb. 3, 2010) The Supreme Court of Ohio today imposed a six month suspension against the law license of Youngstown attorney Dennis A. DiMartino for falsely stating on a North Carolina marriage license application that he had never been married before, and entering into a bigamous second marriage in that state before a divorce from his first wife in Ohio had been finalized.
In a 7-0 per curiam opinion, the Court adopted findings by the Board of Commissioners on Grievances & Discipline that DiMartino’s actions violated the state attorney discipline rule that prohibits conduct involving fraud, deceit, dishonesty or misrepresentation. The Court also found that by engaging in his current misconduct, DiMartino violated the terms of a previous one-year suspension for unrelated rule violations that was stayed on the condition that he not reoffend.
Accordingly, in today’s order the Court reinstated DiMartino’s stayed one-year suspension and ordered that the new six-month suspension be served concurrently.
Contacts
Ronald E. Slipski, 330.797.0086, for the Mahoning County Bar Association.
John B. Juhasz, 330.758.7700, for Dennis DiMartino.
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