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APPLICATION OF DORTCH

Misc. No. 16, Sept. Term, 1996.

687 A.2d 245 (1997)

344 Md. 376

In The Matter of the Application of John Curtis DORTCH for Admission to the Bar of Maryland.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

January 6, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel A. Katz, Takoma Park, for Petitioner.

John Curtis Dortch, South Charleston, WV, pro se.

No argument on behalf of Respondent.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., and ELDRIDGE, RODOWSKY, CHASANOW, KARWACKI, BELL and RAKER, JJ.

CHASANOW, Judge.

In this case we are called upon to decide whether to approve a candidate's petition for admission to the Maryland Bar even though he was convicted of second degree murder and related attempted robbery offenses. We do not decide that issue today, however, because we hold that the candidate's petition for admission is premature. We wish to make it clear that a candidate for admission to the Maryland Bar who has been convicted of a crime that would clearly...

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