IN RE BARTON

[Misc. Docket (Subtitle BV) No. 3, September Term, 1973.]

273 Md. 377 (1974)

329 A.2d 102

IN THE MATTER OF THE PETITION FOR REINSTATEMENT TO THE BAR OF MARYLAND OF RICHARD ANTHONY BARTON

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided December 19, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peter G. Angelos, with whom was James E. Crawford on the brief, for Richard Anthony Barton.

Alfred H. Kreckman, Jr., with whom was J. Snowden Stanley, Jr., on the brief, for Maryland State Bar Association, Inc.

The cause was argued before SINGLEY, SMITH, DIGGES, LEVINE, ELDRIDGE and O'DONNELL, JJ.


ELDRIDGE, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

This case is before us on a petition for reinstatement by a disbarred attorney.

The petitioner, Richard Anthony Barton, became a member of the Maryland bar on June 12, 1952. Fourteen years later, on February 7, 1966, the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City ordered his disbarment. The order was based on findings that Barton had on several occasions misappropriated money belonging to his clients and had failed to...

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