Maryland State Bar Ass'n v. Frank

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• holding that a lack of penalty, though not controlling, suggested that statute was directory
• agreeing that, in disbarment proceedings against attorney, “‘the primary purpose is not to punish an offender; it is protect the public against members of the bar who are unworthy of the trust and confidence essential to the relationship of the attorney and client’ ”
• Principles of double jeopardy and res judicata which bar certain criminal prosecutions are not a bar to disciplinary proceedings against an attorney.

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