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Meanwhile, Tennessee shows N. Carolina the way :

http://www.knoxnews.com/kns/state/article/0,1406,KNS_348_5020204,00.html

NASHVILLE — The state Supreme Court temporarily suspended a district attorney general from practicing law in an order released Monday while an investigation of professional misconduct continues.

William Gibson is the Cookeville-based district attorney general for Clay, Cumberland, DeKalb, Overton, Pickett, Putnam and White counties.

He is under investigation by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation for allegedly writing letters to an inmate without the knowledge of his attorney and discussing the man’s guilty plea.

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The court concluded that Gibson "poses a substantial threat of irreparable harm to the public."