In the Matter of Xavier Cornell Dicks

Summary

The Supreme Court of Georgia disbarred Xavier Cornell Dicks for abandoning a client, mishandling a mechanic’s lien action, failing to notify the client of dismissals, and related disciplinary violations. The Court considered the post-remand report addressing alleged mental impairment and mitigating circumstances, as well as additional aggravating conduct. The Court ordered that Dicks’s name be removed from the rolls of persons authorized to practice law in Georgia.

Holdings

1. Dicks did not establish through admissible evidence that he was mentally impaired at a relevant time or that his alleged mitigating circumstances could not have been presented without such impairment.
2. Disbarment was the appropriate sanction for Dicks's misconduct, and his name was properly removed from the rolls of persons authorized to practice law in Georgia.

Questions Presented

1. Whether Dicks established mental impairment or related mitigating circumstances during the post-remand evidentiary proceedings.
2. Whether disbarment remained the appropriate sanction in light of Dicks's violations, aggravating factors, prior discipline, and failure to establish mitigation.

Disposition

other