Ohio Supreme Court February 7, 2001, No. 00-1139 (Akron Bar Ass'n v. Ritch)

Pfeifer, J.

In late 1997, the crisis center at St. Thomas Hospital in Akron, Ohio, assessed attorney Michael E. Ritch of Peninsula, Ohio, Attorney Registration No. 0039222, as a probable cocaine and alcohol addict. Between November 17, 1997 and December 31, 1997, Ritch gave approximately $300 a day to his friend Anthony Mclvery to buy crack cocaine for the two of them to smoke.