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    In Re Terrell

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    Howard Terrell, an attorney, was accused of assisting in the organization of an association called "Centro Bellas Artes" and acting as its counsel despite knowing it was created to evade the law. The court found Terrell guilty of the charges and suspended him from practicing law. While Terrell was also charged with estafa in a separate case and acquitted, the court ruled his involvement with the association justified a one-year suspension from practicing law due to an attorney assisting with schemes to violate the law.

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    In Re Terrell

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    Howard Terrell, an attorney, was accused of assisting in the organization of an association called "Centro Bellas Artes" and acting as its counsel despite knowing it was created to evade the law. The court found Terrell guilty of the charges and suspended him from practicing law. While Terrell was also charged with estafa in a separate case and acquitted, the court ruled his involvement with the association justified a one-year suspension from practicing law due to an attorney assisting with schemes to violate the law.

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    Howard Terrell, an attorney, was accused of assisting in the organization of an association called "Centro Bellas Artes" and acting as its counsel despite knowing it was created to evade the law. The court found Terrell guilty of the charges and suspended him from practicing law. While Terrell was also charged with estafa in a separate case and acquitted, the court ruled his involvement with the association justified a one-year suspension from practicing law due to an attorney assisting with schemes to violate the law.

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    In Re Terrell

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    Howard Terrell, an attorney, was accused of assisting in the organization of an association called "Centro Bellas Artes" and acting as its counsel despite knowing it was created to evade the law. The court found Terrell guilty of the charges and suspended him from practicing law. While Terrell was also charged with estafa in a separate case and acquitted, the court ruled his involvement with the association justified a one-year suspension from practicing law due to an attorney assisting with schemes to violate the law.

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    Topic: Acting as Counsel for an Association Created for the Purpose

    of Evading the Law


    Title: IN THE MATTER OF THE SUSPENSION OF HOWARD D. TERRELL
    FROM THE PRACTICE OF LAW
    Reference: G.R. No. 1203 May 15, 1903
    FACTS

    An action for the suspension of attorney-at-law Howard Terrell from the


    practice of law was filed in the CFI of Manila for allegedly assisting in the
    organization of Centro Bellas Artes and acting as attorney for such
    association with full knowledge that it was created for the purpose of
    evading the law then in force in said city. The CFI of Manila held that the
    charges against Terrell were true and made an order suspending him from his
    office as a lawyer in the Philippine Islands. Aside from the action for his
    suspension from the practice of law, Terrell was also charged with estafa in a
    separate criminal action but was eventually acquitted.

    ISSUES

    Whether or not Terrell should be suspended from the practice of law?

    RULINGS

    Yes, he should be suspended.

    The promotion of an organization for the purpose of violating or evading


    the penal laws amounts to such malpractice on the part of an attorney at law
    as will justify removal or suspension.

    Assisting a client in a scheme which the attorney knows to be dishonest


    or conniving at a violation of law are acts which are enough to justify
    disbarment. However, Terrells acquittal on the charge of estafa serves to
    lower his sanction to suspension from the practice of law in the Philippine
    Islands for the term of one year from February 7, 1903.

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