News & Observer: NC State Bar dismisses complaints against prosecutors in racially divisive case

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NC State Bar dismisses complaints against prosecutors in racially divisive case

BY JOSEPH NEFF

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For most of 2015, the North Carolina State Bar vigorously and publicly pressed ethics charges against two anti-death penalty lawyers for what were eventually judged to be unimportant inaccuracies in two sworn affidavits.

During the same time, the bar privately dismissed complaints that three prominent prosecutors – one running for attorney general, another now a Superior Court judge ....

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Daily Tar Heel: Adjunct law professor charged for violating privacy

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Adjunct law professor charged for violating privacy 
SIERRA DUNNE | PUBLISHED 01/18/16 11:32PM 

For more than a decade, Christine Mumma has fought for the wrongfully imprisoned. But this past week she fought a different battle. 

Mumma, executive director of the North Carolina Center on Actual Innocence and a professor in the UNC School of Law, faced charges from the North Carolina State Bar for acting dishonestly during an investigation to exonerate Joseph Sledge, who was convicted for two counts of second degree murder in 1978. 

In October 2013, Mumma went to Marie Andrus’ ........

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WRAL: Disciplinary hearing for NC attorney continues (part 2)

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WRAL: Disciplinary hearing for NC attorney continues (part 1)

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WRAL: Focused on freeing inmate, innocence advocate says she made mistake

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Focused on freeing inmate, innocence advocate says she made mistake

Posted January 12

RALEIGH, N.C. — A prominent advocate for inmates wrongly convicted of crimes testified in her own defense Tuesday in a North Carolina State Bar disciplinary hearing.

A three-person disciplinary panel is trying to determine if Christine Mumma, director of the North Carolina Center on Actual Innocence, violated the

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News & Observer: NC lawyer who fights for the wrongfully convicted goes before disciplinary panel

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JANUARY 11, 2016 2:18 PM

NC lawyer who fights for the wrongfully convicted goes before disciplinary panel

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RALEIGH 

A three-member N.C. State Bar panel rejected a request from prosecutors Monday to find Christine Mumma, head of the N.C. Center on Actual Innocence, guilty of professional misconduct without a full hearing on the allegations.

Mumma, an advocate for the falsely accused, was investigating claims of innocence by a wrongfully convicted man when she took the actions that resulted in the disciplinary hearing ....

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