ATTORNEY GRIEV. COMM'N v. ALER

Misc. Docket (Subtitle BV) No. 11, September Term, 1983.

301 Md. 389 (1984)

483 A.2d 56

ATTORNEY GRIEVANCE COMMISSION OF MARYLAND v. CHARLES BERKELEY ALER.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

November 1, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Melvin Hirshman, and Walter D. Murphy, Jr., Bar Counsel and Asst. Bar Counsel, Annapolis, for Attorney Grievance Commission of Maryland.

John Wendell Moyer, Towson, for respondent.

Argued before SMITH, ELDRIDGE, COLE, RODOWSKY and COUCH, JJ., and JAMES C. MORTON, Jr., Associate Judge of the Court of Special Appeals (retired), specially assigned.


COUCH, Judge.

Once again, we are confronted with an attorney whose abuse of alcohol has led Bar Counsel to charge him with violation of the Disciplinary Rules. Acting pursuant to the provisions of Maryland Rule BV9, Bar Counsel filed a petition with this Court on behalf of the Attorney Grievance Commission seeking disciplinary action against Charles Berkeley Aler, a member of the Maryland Bar since 1963. The charges raised by the petition focus upon Mr. Aler's representation...

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