Action by Statewide Grievance

Committee or Reviewing Committee (a) Upon receipt of the record from a grievance panel, the Statewide Grievance Committee may assign the case to a reviewing committee which shall consist of at least three members of the Statewide Grievance Committee, at least one third of whom are not attorneys. The Statewide Grievance Committee may, in its discretion, reas- sign the case to a different reviewing committee. The committee shall regularly rotate membership on reviewing committees and assignments of complaints from the various grievance panels. An attorney who maintains an office for the practice of law in the same judicial district as the respon- dent may not sit on the reviewing committee for that case. (b) The Statewide Grievance Committee and the reviewing committee shall have the power to issue a subpoena to compel any person to appear before it to testify in relation to any matter deemed by the Statewide Grievance Committee or the reviewing committee to be relevant to the com- plaint and to produce before it for examination any books or papers which, in its judgment, may be relevant to such complaint. Any such testimony shall be on the record. (c) If the grievance panel determined that prob- able cause exists that the respondent is guilty of misconduct, the Statewide Grievance Committee or the reviewing committee shall hold a hearing on the complaint. If the grievance panel deter- mined that probable cause does not exist, but filed the matter with the Statewide Grievance Commit- tee because the complaint alleges that a crime has been committed, the Statewide Grievance Committee or the reviewing committee shall review the determination of no probable cause, take evidence if it deems it appropriate and, if it determines that probable cause does exist, shall take the following action: (1) if the Statewide Grievance Committee reviewed the grievance panel’s determination, it shall hold a hearing con- cerning the complaint or assign the matter to a reviewing committee to hold the hearing; or (2) if a reviewing committee reviewed the grievance panel’s determination, it shall hold a hearing con- cerning the complaint or refer the matter to the Statewide Grievance Committee which shall assign it to another reviewing committee to hold the hearing. (d) Disciplinary counsel may add additional alle- gations of misconduct to the grievance panel’s determination that probable cause exists in the following circumstances: (1) Prior to the hearing before the Statewide Grievance Committee or the reviewing commit- tee, disciplinary counsel may add additional alle- gations of misconduct arising from the record of the grievance complaint or its investigation of the complaint. (2) Following commencement of the hearing before the Statewide Grievance Committee or the reviewing committee, disciplinary counsel may only add additional allegations of misconduct for good cause shown and with the consent of the 144 © Copyrighted by the Secretary of the State of the State of Connecticut SUPERIOR COURT—GENERAL PROVISIONS