I may be wrong...but I could have sworn I heard someone on Fox News say that the law in North Carolina didn't have a provision to punish him...
This will be interesting...is the Bar gonna slap him on the wrist...suspend his license??
Oh, yeah...that will make up for what he has done...blech
Thanks for the ping!
It's not the State of NC court or Attorney General, it's the State of NC bar association that is taking action. They police their own. (well, they should police their own)
Ordinarily the state bar investigates the complaint and forwards its recommendations to the state supreme court, which is the actual disciplinary authority. An ethics violation doesn't have to amount to criminal misconduct to support discipline all the way up to suspension or debarment.
I think you may have misheard that, sleuthie. All state bar associations have ethics rules and they come with punishments.
Ordinarily the state bar investigates the complaint and forwards its recommendations to the state supreme court, which is the actual disciplinary authority. An ethics violation doesn't have to amount to criminal misconduct to support discipline all the way up to suspension or disbarment.
The New Black Panthers are a serious problem for him if he drops the case on his own. He's caught by his own sleaziness.
Nobody that I'm aware of has ever said that the state bar couldn't take action against him professionally, but they do not have the power to prosecute him.