ATTORNEY GRIEV. COM'N OF MARYLAND v. HAMBY

Misc. (Subtitle BV) No. 32, September Term, 1990.

322 Md. 606 (1991)

589 A.2d 53

ATTORNEY GRIEVANCE COMMISSION OF MARYLAND v. RUBEN IRVIN HAMBY.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

April 26, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John C. Broderick, Asst. Bar Counsel for Atty. Grievance Com'n of Md.

William A. Lee Clarke, III, Salisbury, for respondent.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., ELDRIDGE, RODOWSKY, McAULIFFE, CHASANOW and KARWACKI, JJ., and EDWARD A. DeWATERS, Jr., Judge, Specially Assigned.


MURPHY, Chief Judge.

Ruben Irvin Hamby, a member of the Maryland Bar since 1986, was charged by the Attorney Grievance Commission, acting through Bar Counsel, with violating Rule 8.4(b) and (d) of the Rules of Professional Conduct, which provides:

"It is professional misconduct for a lawyer to:

* * * * * * "(b) commit a criminal act that reflects adversely on the lawyer's honesty, trustworthiness or fitness as a lawyer in other respects...

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