In Re: C. Mignonne Griffing

Summary

The court found that C. Mignonne Griffing violated professional-conduct rules by failing to disclose her intimate relationship with a key FBI witness, making misrepresentations to her supervisor, and using prosecutorial authority to threaten a criminal defendant. Considering the cumulative misconduct and mitigating circumstances, the court imposed a one-year-and-one-day suspension, deferred all but six months, and ordered one year of unsupervised probation with ethics and professionalism education. Guidry, J., dissenting, would have imposed a fully deferred six-month suspension subject to probation.