Maine Code § 4-853

Proceedings on default or hearing
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If such attorney fails to file that attorney's denial, the facts set forth in the information must be taken
as confessed. If the justice finds that the facts so confessed are sufficient to disqualify the respondent
from holding the office of attorney and counselor at law, or if, in case of denial, the justice upon hearing
finds that any of the charges specified are true and that the acts proved are sufficient to disqualify the
respondent, the justice shall give judgment accordingly, and shall enter a decree that the respondent be
removed from the office of attorney and counselor at law in all the courts of the State and that the
respondent's name be struck from the roll of attorneys. [RR 2021, c. 1, Pt. B, §27 (COR).]
If the justice upon the facts so confessed, or, in the case of denial, upon hearing, finds that any of
the charges specified are true but that the acts proved are not sufficient to disqualify the respondent
permanently from holding the office of attorney and counselor at law, the justice shall give judgment
accordingly and may suspend such respondent from the practice of law for such period as the justice
may consider appropriate, or impose such other disciplinary measures as the justice considers
appropriate. [RR 2021, c. 1, Pt. B, §27 (COR).]

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