Attorney Grievance Commission of Maryland v. Gansler

Prosecutor Douglas Gansler was accused of making improper pretrial statements to the press about four criminal cases, including telling reporters that a murder suspect's shoeprints matched the crime scene and that he had confessed, and characterizing an appellate reversal of a murder conviction as a results-oriented effort to overturn the death penalty. The state bar found some, but not all, of Gansler's statements improper under Rule 3.6's safe harbor for public information, and Gansler appealed.