In re Blair, 188 A.3d 1028, 460 Md. 199 (2018)

July 13, 2018 · Court of Appeals of Maryland · Misc. Docket AG No. 44, Sept. Term, 2017

188 A.3d 1028, 460 Md. 199

In the MATTER OF the Petition for REINSTATEMENT OF Walter Lloyd BLAIR to the Bar of Maryland

Misc. Docket AG No. 44, Sept. Term, 2017

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

July 13, 2018

Argued by Robert Elmer Cappell, Esquire (Bowie, MD), for Petitioner.

Argued by Raymond A. Hein, Deputy Bar Counsel (Lydia E. Lawless, Bar Counsel, Atty. Grievance Commission of Maryland), for Respondent.

Argued before: Greene, Adkins, Watts, Getty, Glenn T. Harrell, Jr. (Senior Judge, Specially Assigned), Lynne A. Battaglia (Senior Judge, Specially Assigned), Irma S. Raker (Senior Judge, Specially Assigned), JJ.

ORDER

Clayton Greene Jr., Senior Judge Upon the consideration of the Petition for Reinstatement to the Bar of Maryland filed on December 1, 2017 by Walter Lloyd Blair, and Bar Counsel's response thereto filed on January 30, 2018; and WHEREAS, Petitioner was suspended from the practice of law in this State by this Court's Order of July 21, 2010 in the case of Attorney Grievance Commission v. Walter Lloyd Blair, Misc. Docket AG No. 83, September Term, 2009; and

WHEREAS, this Court's July 21, 2010 Order was a temporary suspension order entered pursuant to former Maryland Rule 16-771(c), then in effect for disciplinary or remedial actions initiated upon an attorney's conviction of a serious crime; and

WHEREAS, oral arguments having been held in these matters; and

WHEREAS, the Petitioner having been disbarred this date in an opinion issued by this Court in the underlying disciplinary or remedial action docketed as Misc. Docket AG No. 83, September Term, 2009,

NOW, THEREFORE, it is this 13th day of July, 2018,

ORDERED, by the Court of Appeals o f Maryland, that the Petition for Reinstatement be, and it is hereby, DENIED.