Buell v. Emerich

How courts have described this case

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• holding misdemean- or convictions for delivering contraband to inmate were violations of GRPC Rule 8.4 and warranted disbarment
• finding that misdemeanor violations of OCGA § 42-4- 13 (e) for carrying items (tobacco) across the guard line at a jail involved “moral turpitude” and warranted disbarment
• misdemeanors involving dishonesty may be crimes of moral turpitude
• “Whether a lawyer has been practicing for thirty years, or only for a few days, he ought to know that an attorney should not smuggle contraband to a client in jail. This is not the sort of case in which experience in the practice of law has any relevance to the misconduct.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).