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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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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NC Supreme Court: Order denying Tillett's motion for discretionary review

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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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VOICES: I quit the NC State Bar for serving power instead of the people

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In January 2014, Lewis Pitts retired from Legal Aid of North Carolina and the practice of law after 40 years as a public-interest attorney. Pitts helped start the Christic Institute, where he was involved in high-profile civil rights cases .......

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NC Lawyers Weekly: Attorney sues NC State Bar over inaction

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Attorney sues NC State Bar over inaction 

Alleges bar ignored complaint about AG, has conflict of interest

By: Phillip Bantz January 20, 2016

Raleigh lawyer Gene Boyce is suing the North Carolina State Bar for failing to refer his ethical complaint against state Attorney General Roy Cooper to an independent investigator. Boyce said in a recent interview that the state bar created a precedent that paved the way for his suit when it asked the State Bar of Georgia ...

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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

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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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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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