In Re: Trisha Ann Ward

Summary

The court found that respondent engaged in professional misconduct by intentionally entering a former romantic partner’s home without permission and by using the partner’s credit-card information for purchases, violating the professional-conduct rules concerning compliance and criminal conduct. It rejected the alleged violation concerning dishonesty because the evidence contradicted the charge’s assertion that respondent had never been given permission to use the card. The court imposed a one-year-and-one-day suspension retroactive to respondent’s interim suspension. GENOVESE, J., dissenting, would have imposed a two-year suspension because respondent’s criminal activity warranted a more severe sanction.