the statute requiring an attorney convicted of an offense involving moral turpitude to be stricken from the roll of the members of the bar required permanent disbarment
How later courts described this case
- the statute requiring an attorney convicted of an offense involving moral turpitude to be stricken from the roll of the members of the bar required permanent disbarment
- despite protestations of innocence after an Alford plea, the hearing committee was correct not to revisit the issue of guilt
- disbarment "permanent” absent a pardon
Written by the judges who cited it.
Distinguished
Distinguished by In Re Manville, 1988 D.C. App. LEXIS 43 (1988)
Moreover, as we. explain, Kerr is distinguishable and does not control our action on these applications.
The opinion
GALLAGHER, Associate Judge,
concurring:
Though it may appear the statute is unnecessarily rigid, the fact remains that this is properly a legislative concern and not one for the court. Because of the way the statute is now drawn, I see no course but to reach the result we do.