Long-time Jackson attorney James McIntyre has been disbarred. He's probably best known for representing Edgar Ray Killen in his 2005 trial.

"I don't know what I'm going to do," said McIntyre.

You can't blame James McIntyre for being a little out of sorts. After over four decades of working in the only job he ever wanted, he's now out of work.

"It's hard to go out this way," he said.

This opinion and ruling from a three-person tribunal convened by the Mississippi Bar finds McIntyre guilty of commingling his personal and business funds with those of his clients, saying:

"Mr. McIntyre's client and/or third party funds were not safe from being appropriated by Mr. McIntyre and others for personal or business purposes."

The tribunal even quoted a state Supreme court ruling:

"The moment the lawyer succumbs to a temptation to appropriate for his own use any of his client's money entrusted to his safekeeping is the moment he shows his unfitness to be a practicing lawyer."

"I am extremely embarrassed.," said McIntyre. "I have a lot of sorrow about my conduct, have a lot of remorse."

This past May, McIntyre's collection of files, newspaper clippings and artifacts from the 1967 trial of Neshoba County Sheriff Lawrence Rainey, as well as the Killen trial, were donated to the Department of Archives and History to be displayed in the new civil rights museum.

"Of course, three-fourths of the people don't even remember it. They weren't even born at the time, and bringing up things that happened 40 and 50 and 60 years ago, I thought those wounds had been healed," said McIntyre.

McIntyre says no clients lost any money. In fact, he had several signed affidavits saying so. He even got a CPA to testify on his behalf. Now McIntyre has to decide whether he wants to appeal the bar's ruling.

The ruling cites previous disciplinary action by the bar against McIntyre and the fact the commingling went on for a 4-year period as reasons for his disbarment.