Attorney Grievance Commission v. Sparrow

ADKINS, Judge.

Before us in this case is the question of what sanction should be imposed on a member of the Maryland Bar who, *423in 1982, was convicted of serious crimes by a federal court in California, in 1985 suspended from the practice of law in California, and in 1987 reinstated in California.

In May 1984, a hearing panel of the Hearing Department of the State Bar Court of the State Bar of California1 found that respondent, Victor H. Sparrow, III, a member of the California Bar, had

during the period from 1980 through 1982, ... conspired with others to direct and manage a sham marriage ring in…