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Article: Lawyer guilty of stalking suspended by Md. Court of Appeals
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- The Daily Record (Baltimore)
- Article date:
- June 9, 2009
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The Court of Appeals has suspended a lawyer indefinitely for a
stalking conviction, even though the Supreme Court of New Jersey,
where the attorney lives, suspended him for only three months.
According to the Maryland top court's opinion, Paul Stephen
Beatty of Spring Lake, N.J., pleaded guilty to fourth-degree
stalking in 2007. He stalked a horse trainer at a racetrack in New
Jersey and followed her home to South Carolina.
The Court of Appeals held that the conditions of the three-month
suspension imposed on Beatty by the New Jersey court align best with
Maryland's indefinite suspension sanction.
"Because Respondent will not be readmitted to the Bar of New
Jersey until that State's Supreme ...