The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported Thursday that the lawyer, David Dalton II, already had signed an agreement with the U.S. attorney's office not to practice law for one year beginning June 25, 2007.

The newspaper reported that the Supreme Court order suspends Dalton's law license for at least a year starting March 6, citing professional misconduct.

Court documents say Dalton and another attorney, Brian Zink, asked client Mary Hart to get a baseball signed by Terry Bradshaw, the retired Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback who is alleged to be Hart's godfather.

In exchange for the ball, assistant prosecutor Matthew Thornhill, now an associate circuit judge, reduced felony charges against Hart to misdemeanors, court documents allege.

The Supreme Court has taken no action against Thornhill or Zink, the newspaper reported.