News & Observer: Bar dismisses grievance against lawyer who worked on Racial Justice Act cases

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FEBRUARY 2, 2016 6:01 PM

Bar dismisses grievance against lawyer who worked on Racial Justice Act cases

Cassandra Stubbs cleared in unusual case

Bar panel reconsidered its earlier admonishment

Peer’s case handled differently

BY ANNE BLYTHE

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An N.C. State Bar disciplinary panel has vacated a five-month-old ruling against Cassandra Stubbs, a lawyer who worked on successful Racial Justice Act cases.

The panel issued a new order Monday that dismissed the grievance filed against the Durham defense attorney and entered a judgment in Stubbs’ favor. The admonishment she received has been wiped off her record from a disciplinary ....

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WRAL: State Bar reverses itself, clears lawyer in Racial Justice Act case of wrongdoing

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State Bar reverses itself, clears lawyer in Racial Justice Act case of wrongdoing

Posted February 1

RALEIGH, N.C. — A disciplinary panel of the North Carolina State Bar has dismissed a complaint against a lawyer who participated in the first case to be heard under the Racial Justice Act, five months after the lawyer was admonished for her actions in the case. 

Cassandra Stubbs was part of a team of lawyers who represented Marcus Robinson, whose death sentence was commuted in 2012 after .....

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News & Observer: NC lawyers face bar complaints for Racial Justice Act work

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MARCH 27, 2015 7:14 PM

NC lawyers face bar complaints for Racial Justice Act work

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Two defense attorneys face accusations of professional misconduct for a piece of their work on the first successful challenge under the Racial Justice Act.

Gretchen Engel, director of the Durham-based Center for Death Penalty Litigation, and Cassandra Stubbs, a lawyer with the American Civil Liberties Union Capital Punishment Project, were among a team of attorneys who ....

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