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FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT DON MAISON 214.941.0523
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Suspended Dallas attorney Mark William Nelson was disbarred from
the practice of law on Monday, August 29, 1994, in a lawsuit brought
by the State Bar of Texas. The complaint against Nelson was
submitted to the State Bar of Texas in August, 1991 by Dallas attorney
Don Maison, President and Chief Executive Officer of AIDS Services of
Dallas.
Maison complained to the State Bar about Nelson's role as attorney
and independent executor for the Estate of Robert J. Huse, who was
murdered in September, 1990. Nelson, who acted as the Independent
Executor for the estate, resigned after a probate court froze estate
assets based on Maison's petition. Maison succeeded Nelson as
Independent Executor after Nelson resigned in September, 1991.
Mason had alleged that Nelson had wrongly paid himself $40,000. In
addition, Nelson paid nearly $25,000 to James Terrell, Huse's former
roommate. Mason discovered that Huse had thrown Terrell out of his
home and changed the locks just days before the murder.
Credit reports ordered by Maison after he had become Successor
Independent Executor in September 1991 revealed continuing and new
credit history in Dr. Puse's name months after the murder. In
October 1991 Maison, as Successor Independent Executor and PWA
Coalition of Dallas d/b/a AIDS Services of Dallas filed suit in probate
court against Nelson seeking actual and punitive damages against
Nelson totaling $2.21 million. The probate case has yet to proceed to
trial due to successive bankruptcy filings that have stayed
proceedings in state court. The first voluntary petition was dismissed
with prejudice by United States Bankruptcy Judge Robert McGuire. In
March 1994, a subsequent "involuntary petition" was filed against
Nelson by his former business partner Phillip Doyle Spicer, Nelson's
former attorney, Joseph P. Ashmore, and a former client of Mr. Nelson
who disavowed the bankruptcy action, Nelson, Spicer and Ashmore
were sanctioned for more than $3,000 by United States Bankruptcy
Judge Steven Felsenthal. The state probate court case is still pending
and Nelson filed an appeal of the dismissal of the involuntary petition
in bankruptcy filed under Chapter 11. The bankruptcy appeal is also
pending.
In March, 1992, Nelson was indicted by the Dallas County Grand Jury
for credit card abuse, a third degree felony. That case is also
pending.D: \WENWORD\NELSONPR.L3OC
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[Press release: Mark William Nelson disbarred from practice of law], text, August 30, 1994; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc916557/m1/1/: accessed July 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.