State Bar Grievance Administrator v. Lewis

Appellant Alphonse Lewis, Jr., a member of the State Bar of Michigan, was indicted by a Federal grand jury for two separate violations of 68A Stat 851, 852 (1954), 26 USC 7203. On February 29, 1972, Judge Noel P. Fox accepted appellant’s plea of nolo contendere to Count II of the indictment (failure to file an income tax return for the year 1965) and set sentence at imprisonment for a term of 1 year; and on condition that appellant spend 2 weeks in the Ingham County Jail, the remainder of the sentence was suspended and appellant placed on probation for 11 months and 2 weeks. No appeal was…