Attorney Grievance Commission v. Barnes

Cole and Davidson, JJ., dissent. Davidson, J., filed a dissenting opinion at page 481 infra, in which Cole, J., concurs.

Harry Davis Barnes, a member of the Maryland Bar for thirty-nine years, was indicted by a Grand Jury in the United States District Court for the District of Maryland for willful failure to file federal income tax returns for 1969 and 1970 — misdemeanor offenses violative of 26 U.S.C. § 7203 (1976).1

On February 10, 1976, the District Court accepted Barnes’ guilty plea to willful failure to file his 1970 return. It entered a judgment of conviction, suspended the imposition of…