Attorney Grievance Commission of Maryland v. Spector, s. M
Decision Date | 16 April 1982 |
Docket Number | Nos. M,s. M |
Citation | 443 A.2d 965,293 Md. 324 |
Parties | ATTORNEY GRIEVANCE COMMISSION OF MARYLAND v. Allen B. SPECTOR. ATTORNEY GRIEVANCE COMMISSION OF MARYLAND v. Maurice Roche WYATT. isc. (BV) 16, 17. |
Court | Maryland Court of Appeals |
Glenn M. Grossman, Asst. Bar Counsel, Annapolis, for petitioner.
Paul Mark Sandler, Baltimore, for respondent, Allen B. Spector.
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Russell Smouse and George F. Pappas, Baltimore, for respondent, Maurice Roche Wyatt.
Argued before SMITH, COLE, RODOWSKY and COUCH, JJ., and MORTON, JAMES C., Jr., THOMPSON, C. AWDRY and WEANT, EDWARD O., Jr., Specially Assigned, Judges.
Once again we are involved in the unpleasant task of disciplining Maryland lawyers.
Bar Counsel, acting on behalf of the Attorney Grievance Commission, filed petitions with us seeking disciplinary action against Allen B. Spector and Maurice Roche Wyatt upon the basis of their convictions of bribery. They already stand suspended from the practice of law in this State until the further order of this Court. An order to that effect was entered pursuant to Maryland Rule BV16 subsequent to their convictions in the trial court. The facts are recounted in Spector v. State, 289 Md. 407, 425 A.2d 197, cert. denied, 452 U.S. 906, 101 S.Ct. 3032, 69 L.Ed.2d 407 (1981).
Pursuant to Rule BV9, we designated the Honorable Walter R. Haile of the Circuit Court for Baltimore County to hear the charges. He has filed with us identical findings of fact and conclusions of law in each case. These findings state in relevant part:
'If any person shall bribe or attempt to bribe ... any officer or employee of the State ... in order to influence any such officer or person in the performance of any of his official duties; and if ... any officer or any employee of the State shall demand or receive any bribe ... for the purpose of influencing him in the performance of his official duties, or for neglecting or failing to perform the same, every such person so bribing or attempting to bribe any of such officers or persons, and every such person so demanding or receiving any bribe ... shall be deemed guilty of bribery ....'
No exceptions have been filed by Spector. Wyatt, on the other hand, excepts to the findings of fact "that it was proved conclusively that he committed the crimes of bribery" and that "monies which allegedly passed from Allen Spector through (him) to Donald Noren were made pursuant to a corrupt agreement or agreements and constituted briberies offered and accepted." Wyatt likewise has excepted to the conclusions of law, asserting that no corrupt agreement "has been proved in the proceedings herein" and that "there was no quid pro quo which existed or which was found herein; nor does the record support any such finding or conclusion."
In Spector we said:
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