042636P.pdf   09/23/2005  In Re: M. Fletcher  v.  
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  04-2636
   Western District of Missouri   
   [PUBLISHED] [Gruender, Author, with Riley and Fagg, Circuit 
   Judges] 
   Civil case - Attorney Discipline. Order by the Western District of 
   Missouri suspending Michael Robert Fletcher from the practice of law 
   before that court for three years for numerous violations of the Missouri 
   Rules of Professional Conduct is affirmed; scope of the court's 
   investigation was not limited to the allegations of misconduct which gave 
   rise to the proceedings, and the court's appointed counsel acted properly 
   in searching for other instances of misconduct as that information was 
   indispensable in determining whether Fletcher's actions in the underlying 
   case were an isolated instance of misconduct; the two judges who filed 
   the predicate complaint were not required to recuse themselves from the 
   en banc court's consideration of the disciplinary action recommended by 
   the three-judge panel which conducted the hearing on the matter and 
   found Fletcher guilty; district court did not abuse its discretion in 
   imposing a three-year suspension.