Cocco v. Maryland Commission on Medical Discipline

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• Actions before professional disciplinary boards are neither criminal nor civil and thus are not subject to the same protections as pure criminal prosecutions.
• “[Disciplinary proceedings against a professional have the unique purpose of protecting the public from the results of a professional’s improper conduct, incompetence or unscrupulous practices.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).