Elledge v. Alabama State Bar

Cecil Wilbur Elledge, Jr., appeals from a decision of the Disciplinary Board of the Alabama State Bar ("the Board") denying him reinstatement to the practice of law. We affirm.

On April 9, 1984, Elledge was disbarred. Elledge's first petition for reinstatement to the practice of law, filed in 1988, was denied. His second petition for reinstatement, filed in 1989, was denied after a hearing before the Board. At the hearing, besides Elledge's own testimony, he presented the testimony of his daughter and certain family friends as character witnesses, and he presented 14 letters of recommendations…