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IN RE KERR

No. 89-SP-1254.

611 A.2d 551 (1992)

In re Frederick M. KERR, Respondent.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided August 7, 1992.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Elizabeth A. Herman, Asst. Bar Counsel, with whom Wallace E. Shipp, Jr., Acting Bar Counsel, Washington, D.C., at the time the brief was filed, for petitioner, the Office of Bar Counsel.

Joan L. Goldfrank, Executive Atty., Washington, D.C., for the Board on Professional Responsibility.

Raymond O. Gross, Clearwater, Fla., for respondent.

Before TERRY and KING, Associate Judges, and BELSON, Senior Judge.

TERRY, Associate Judge:

This case represents the latest of our continuing efforts to define the term "moral turpitude" as it applies to attorney misconduct. Respondent, an attorney, was convicted of violating 26 U.S.C. § 7206(1) (1988), which makes it a crime to file a false tax return "[w]illfully ... under the penalties of perjury." We must decide whether that crime involves moral turpitude per se. The Board...

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