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ATTORNEY GRIEVANCE COM. v. BREWSTER

[Misc. Docket (Subtitle BV) No. 7, September Term, 1976.]

280 Md. 473 (1977)

374 A.2d 602

ATTORNEY GRIEVANCE COMMISSION OF MARYLAND v. DANIEL BAUGH BREWSTER

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided June 21, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

L. Hollingsworth Pittman, Bar Counsel, for petitioner.

Richard W. Emory for respondent.

The cause was argued before MURPHY, C.J., and SINGLEY, SMITH, DIGGES, LEVINE and ELDRIDGE, JJ., and JERROLD V. POWERS, Associate Judge of the Court of Special Appeals, specially assigned.

SMITH, J., delivered the opinion of the Court. MURPHY, C.J., dissents and filed a dissenting opinion at page 480 infra.

We shall here hold that although Daniel B. Brewster, a member of the Bar of this Court and a former United States Senator from Maryland, stands convicted of accepting an illegal gratuity, because this is not a crime involving moral turpitude and the petition for disciplinary action filed under Maryland Rule BV9 charged him only with conviction...

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