F. Lee Bailey v. Board of Bar Examiners

[¶ 1] The Board of Bar Examiners appeals from the judgment of a single justice of the Supreme Judicial Court (Alexander, J.) concluding that applicant F. Lee Bailey presently possesses the requisite good character and fitness required by M. Bar R. 7.3(j)(5) to be admitted to practice law in Maine.

[¶2] The Board advances several reasons in support of its position that the single justice erred in authorizing Bailey’s admission to the Maine bar. 1 Because we conclude that the single justice erred with respect to the Board’s principal assertion — that Bailey failed to prove by clear and…