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Aug. 30, 2016

San Diego attorney disbarred for threatening violence

The state Supreme Court has made permanent the disbarment of Douglas L. Crawford, a San Diego-based lawyer who called a trial judge "sick and demented" and threatened violence against opposing counsel, among other offenses.

By Saul Sugarman
Daily Journal Staff Writer

The state Supreme Court has made permanent the disbarment of Douglas L. Crawford, a San Diego-based lawyer who called a trial judge "sick and demented" and threatened violence against opposing counsel, among other offenses.

The decision, reached last week, comes more than a year after Crawford was placed on involuntary inactive status. In February 2015, State Bar Court J...

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