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Disbarment Case In Re Lontoc

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Furthermore, although disbarments under moral turpitude cover wide latitude of grounds which might include avenues of a lawyer’s personal and professional capacity, the Court in In re Lontoc shows that this ground is intended to relate to a lawyer’s professional capacity. The disbarment case here involved a lawyer convicted of bigamy but was subsequently granted a pardon. The Court in dismissing the case, held that: “Where proceedings to strike an attorney's name from the rolls are founded on, and depend alone, on a statute making the fact of a conviction for a felony ground for disbarment, it has been held that a pardon operates to wipe out the conviction and is a bar to any proceeding for the disbarment of attorneys after pardon has been

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