A judicial disciplinary panel is recommending temporary suspensions for two lawyers who exchanged “racially offensive” emails as they prosecuted an Asian-American teenager who was accused of killing her parents by setting fire to the family home in Brockton in 2003.

The panel’s majority recommended a two-year suspension for Karen H. O’Sullivan, currently the first assistant to Bristol District Attorney Thomas M. Quinn III, and a suspension of a year and one day for John E. Bradley Jr., a former prosecutor.

The findings and recommendations, unprecedented for a case involving racial animus, were detailed in a Sept. 3 opinion by a three-member committee appointed by the Board of Bar Overseers. O’Sullivan and Bradley are white.

The recommendations will go to the Supreme Judicial Court, wh

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