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tice of law in his court is guilty of professional misconduct, malpractice,
fraud, deceit, crime involving moral turpitude, or conduct prejudicial to
the administration of justice, he shall issue an order directed to the Bar
Association and/or State's Attorney of the City or County, as the case
may be, in which his said court is located, requiring said Bar Association
and/or State's Attorney to prosecute the charges named in said order on
a day specified therein, which day shall not be less than fifteen or more
than sixty days from the date of said order, and shall direct that a copy
of said order be forthwith served on said attorney. If it appear that said
charges cannot be served on said attorney within the State, the same may
be served upon him without the State by mail or otherwise, as the Court
shall by its order direct.
1929, ch. 370, sec. 10B.
10B. Charges of professional misconduct, malpractice, fraud, deceit,
crime involving moral turpitude, or conduct prejudicial to the administra-
tion of justice against any attorney at law may be filed in any court where
such attorney is admitted to practice by any bar association acting through
its appropriate committee or by any group of five or more members of the
bar and thereupon such proceedings shall be had as if said charges had
been filed by the court and specified in the order directing the prosecution
thereof, referred to in the preceding section.
1929, ch. 370, sec. 10C.
10C. Every charge filed against any attorney shall be in writing and
shall be of such particularity as to give him sufficient notice of the evidence
to be offered in support of it.
1929, ch. 370. sec. 10D.
10D. Said charges shall be heard before two or more judges of the
judicial circuit in which said court, wherein such charges have been filed,
is located, and the accused attorney shall be afforded full opportunity to
be heard and, unless the accused attorney shall in writing elect otherwise,
all the testimony taken at said hearing shall be taken down by a stenog-
rapher and transcribed as in civil cases. Said hearing shall be governed
by the rules of law, evidence and procedure of civil cases, so far as the
same may be applicable thereto.
1929, ch. 370, sec. 10E.
10E. Every attorney who shall, after having an opportunity to be
heard, as provided in the preceding section, be found guilty of professional
misconduct, malpractice, fraud, deceit, crime involving moral turpitude,
or conduct prejudicial to the administration of justice, shall, by order of
the judges finding him guilty, be suspended or disbarred from the practice
of his profession in this State.
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