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Tuesday, January 3, 2017

News & Observer: NC Supreme Court sides with Judge Tillett in dispute with State Bar

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JANUARY 3, 2017 11:34 AM

NC Supreme Court sides with Judge Tillett in dispute with State Bar

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BY ANNE BLYTHE

RALEIGH 
Judges across North Carolina have been watching with intrigue a disciplinary case brought against a Dare County judge by the state organization that oversees lawyers.
Jerry Tillett, the senior resident Superior Court judge in Dare County, had already accepted a public reprimand from the state’s Judicial Standards Commission before the N.C. State Bar ...

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Court's opinion: https://ncbarvsutton.blogspot.com/2016/12/nc-supreme-court-nc-state-bar-v-tillett.html

Google Scholar citation: https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=10409962428869454585

All documents in the case: https://www.ncappellatecourts.org/search-results.php?sDocketSearch=208PA15&exact=1

NC Lawyers Weekly Digest (with holding): https://ncbarvsutton.blogspot.com/2017/01/nc-lawyers-weekly-opinion-digest-judges.html
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Wednesday, September 21, 2016

News & Observer: Politics, new study prompt call for crime lab review

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Politics, new study prompt call for crime lab review

BY CRAIG JARVIS
RALEIGH 
A Republican legislator on Wednesday called on the General Assembly and the N.C. Department of Justice to conduct a sweeping review of the State Crime Lab, in light of a new federal report that found pervasive weaknesses in forensic science across the country.
Rep. Marilyn Avila’s remarks were delivered through a couple of layers of politics: She spoke at a GOP news conference attacking Democratic .....

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Saturday, August 20, 2016

News & Observer: Report criticized SBI crime lab’s lack of documentation

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Report criticized SBI crime lab’s lack of documentation

BY CRAIG JARVIS


After an avalanche of bad publicity about the State Bureau of Investigation’s crime lab six years ago, Attorney General Roy Cooper announced changes on more than two dozen occasions about how the lab would operate.
But one assessment of the lab stayed private: a report produced by an independent accreditation agency in December 2010. Among other things,

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Friday, August 12, 2016

News & Observer: GOP ad slams Cooper over crime lab

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GOP ad slams Cooper over crime lab

BY CRAIG JARVIS

The Republican Governors Association is out with a new anti-Roy Cooper ad, this one blaming the Democratic attorney general for widespread problems in the State Crime Lab several years ago. Cooper is running against GOP Gov. Pat McCrory.
At the time, the crime lab was part of the State Bureau of Investigation under the state Department of Justice. In 2013, the Republican-led ......

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Saturday, February 6, 2016

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

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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News & Observer: Former NC Supreme Court justice calls for review of state bar

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Former NC Supreme Court justice calls for review of state bar

BY ANNE BLYTHE
ablythe@newsobserver.com

RALEIGH 
Bob Orr, a former North Carolina Supreme Court justice, says it’s time for a comprehensive outside review of the state agency that oversees lawyers.
Orr, a licensed lawyer in North Carolina for four decades, is part of a committee looking at legal ....

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Tuesday, February 2, 2016

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

http://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/crime/article58002193.html

 
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
RALEIGH 
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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Monday, January 18, 2016

News & Observer: NC lawyer steps away from profession, troubled by the legal field

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NC lawyer steps away from profession, troubled by the legal field


BY ANNE BLYTHE
GREENSBORO 
North Carolina recently launched a top-to-bottom review of the judicial system, a comprehensive look that will come from the assembly of judges, lawyers, government officials, business leaders and others called on by the state’s chief justice.
At about the time that review was beginning, Lewis Pitts, a lawyer who has accumulated many awards and recognitions for his work on children’s rights and ...

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