Maryland State Bar Ass'n v. Agnew

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• “Disciplinary procedures have been established ... not for punishment, but rather as a catharsis for the profession and a prophylactic for the public.”
• the entire system of income taxes is based on the “honor of the individual reporting his income”
• criminal offense involving element of knowing fraud grounds for disbarment in the absence of compelling extenuating circumstances
• Attorney disbarred despite record of service: “[W]hen a member of the bar is shown to be willfully dishonest for personal gain by means of fraud, deceit, cheating or like conduct ... disbarment follow[s] as a matter of course.”
• federal income tax evasion constitutes conduct \prejudicial to the administration of justice\
• By imposing such a sanction, this Court fulfills its responsibility “to insist upon the maintenance of the integrity of the Bar and to prevent the transgression of an individual lawyer from bringing its image into disrepute.”

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