turn, gave the photocopy to your clients and told them the original would be mailed to them the next day. However, your clients promptly discovered an irregularity in the license and complained to your law firm on April 3, 1982. It was then discovered that an application for ACA’s liquor license had not been filed.
On that same day, you voluntarily approached your partners in the law firm and told them about your conduct over the pri- or 9-month period, including the obtaining of the fictitious license from Mr. Sunahara on April 2, 1982.
Your partners immediately reported your conduct to the Grievance Committee. You appeared with your attorney at the Grievance Committee Offices on April 9, 1982. Thereafter, on April 14, 1982, in a separate proceeding, the Grievance Committee filed with this court a petition requesting that we issue an order directing you to show cause why you should not be examined by a qualified medical expert to determine whether you were incapable of continuing to practice law by reason of mental infirmity or physical illness. The basis of the Grievance Committee’s petition was that the personal and professional stress you were under, coupled with your addiction to cocaine, may have caused you to fabricate the issuance of a liquor license for your client, ACA.
You surrendered yourself to law enforcement authorities in Denver, Colorado on May 24, 1982, on criminal charges which had been filed. On April 25, 1983, you entered pleas of guilty to unlawful use of a controlled substance, section 18-18-104, 8 C.R.S. (1984 Supp.) (a class 5 felony), and criminal possession of a third-degree forged instrument, section 18-5-107, 8 C.R.S. (1978) (a class 2 misdemeanor). Proceedings on the felony offense were suspended pursuant to section 18-18-104, 8 C.R.S. (1984 Supp.), and you were placed under the supervision of the probation department. This disposition was similar in all material respects to a deferred judgment and sentence. A judgment of conviction was entered on the misdemeanor charge and you were sentenced to probation. As conditions of the deferred judgment and sentence and probation, you were ordered to: (1) Pay $1,000 to a drug rehabilitation program approved by the probation department; (2) continue treatment for your drug dependency; and (3) furnish 100 hours of community service to a drug program.
You successfully completed the period of the deferred judgment and sentence and probation and complied with the terms and conditions imposed by the Denver District Court. As a result, the felony charge has been dismissed.
You began therapy with a psychologist in September 1981. The purpose of the treatment was to resolve a number of issues, including your use and abuse of cocaine which began in February 1982, and your work related difficulties arising from the pressures of an extensive litigation practice.
On April 6, 1982, you were placed on medical leave from your law firm. Thereafter, you resigned from the firm of Brownstein, Hyatt, Farber and Madden and opened your own law practice in June of 1982.
The Grievance Committee approved the stipulation entered into by you and the disciplinary prosecutor that you be suspended from the practice of law for a year and a day, but that the suspension be stayed on the condition you receive a public censure and be placed on probation until April 1984. Because the effect of the various proceedings was to place you on probation, the time period has elapsed, and, most important, your efforts and those of others have resulted in your rehabilitation, no useful purpose would be served by imposing a suspension at this point in the proceedings. Moreover, the disability proceeding was terminated by the order of this' court on June 14, 1984. At that time, the court approved the recommendation of the Grievance Committee and ordered that you be allowed to continue the practice of law without any supervision from that body.