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· 2/21/2014

Attorney Grievance Commission v. McDonald

Citations

  • 437 Md. 1
  • 85 A.3d 117
  • 2014 WL 685368
  • 2014 Md. LEXIS 67

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • “A hearing judge’s factual finding is not clearly erroneous [i]f there is any competent material evidence to support [it].” (internal quotation marks and citation omitted)
  • “A hearing judge’s factual finding is not clearly erroneous ‘[i]f there is any competent material evidence to support [it]’”
  • a prosecutor is “held to even higher standards of conduct than other attorneys due to [the] unique role as both advocate and minister of justice”
  • “A hearing judge’s factual finding is not clearly erroneous ‘[i]f there is any competent material evidence to support [it]’”
  • courts “routinely apply their common sense, powers of logic, and accumulated experiences in life” to draw reasonable inferences “from demonstrated sets of facts” (cleaned up)
  • “Prosecutors must be held to even higher standards of conduct than other attorneys due to their unique role as both advocate and minister of justice.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Harrell

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