# Attorney Grievance Commission v. Keiner

> Court of Appeals of Maryland · August 19, 2011 · 421 Md. 492

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9754262

## Case

- **Full name:** ATTORNEY GRIEVANCE COMMISSION OF MARYLAND v. Gregory Raymond KEINER
- **Court:** Court of Appeals of Maryland
- **Decided:** August 19, 2011
- **Citations:** 421 Md. 492; 27 A.3d 153; 2011 Md. LEXIS 523
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Dissent by Retired
- **Judges:** Bell, Harrell, Battaglia, Greene, Murphy, Barbera, Eldridge
- **Cited by:** 19 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- stating that “barring explicit evidence in the record to the contrary, we presume that any hearing judge in conducting ... any [ ] legal proceeding, understands and carries out his or her obligation to follow the law”
- stating that hearing judge’s failure to mention certain facts does not mean he or she failed to consider those facts, and does not warrant the grant of an exception

## Opinion text

JOHN C. ELDRIDGE (Retired, Specially Assigned),
dissenting.
In this case, I would impose a sanction of an indefinite suspension rather than disbarment. Among this Court’s prior attorney grievance cases, the present case is most similar to Attorney Grievance Commission v. Potter, 380 Md. 128 , 844 A.2d 367 (2004), in which the Court unanimously imposed a ninety-day suspension. The facts of the present case are not significantly different from the facts in Potter . The imposition of a suspension in the case at bar would comport with consistency and a respect for precedent.
Chief Judge BELL and Judge MURPHY join this dissenting opinion.

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