Court Opinion

ID: 9635667
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 13:58:59.890094+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T11:18:04.583396
License: Public Domain

CATHELL, J.,
Dissenting.
I concur with the findings of the majority. I disagree, however, with the sanction. In Attorney Grievance Commis*347sion v. Childress, 364 Md. 48, 74-75, 770 A.2d 685, 701 (2001), writing in dissent, I stated:
In my view of the present world we live in, sexual predators who are permitted to remain as attorneys potentially are more damaging to the image of the profession and more dangerous to the public, than most of those we have disbarred, and all of those on whom we have imposed lesser sanctions. This case involves an adult’s repeated attempts to engage in improper and sometimes illegal and criminal sexual activity with children. Now is the time to say that there are certain sexual practices involving children that will forever bar a person from membership in the heretofore honorable profession of law. [Footnotes omitted.]
I have not changed my views. For the reasons stated in my dissent in Childress, I would disbar the respondent.