{"id":1944,"date":"2016-02-08T20:34:52","date_gmt":"2016-02-08T20:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1944"},"modified":"2016-02-08T22:05:09","modified_gmt":"2016-02-08T22:05:09","slug":"former-justice-calls-for-investigation-of-state-bar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1944","title":{"rendered":"Former justice calls for investigation of state bar"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Robert F. Orr<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Feb. 8, 2016<\/p>\n

\u201cBob Orr, a former North Carolina Supreme Court justice, says it\u2019s time for a comprehensive outside review of the state agency that oversees lawyers.<\/p>\n

\u201cOrr… is part of a committee looking at legal professionalism as part of Chief Justice Mark Martin\u2019s recently launched review of the state justice system….<\/p>\n

\u201cThe call for evaluation comes amid questions about the bar\u2019s aggressive prosecution of three defense attorneys who have worked on Racial Justice Act<\/a>\u00a0(text cache<\/a>) and innocence inquiry<\/a>\u00a0cases….\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2013 From \u201cFormer NC Supreme Court justice calls for review of state bar<\/a>\u201d\u00a0by Anne Blythe in the News & Observer (Feb. 6) \u00a0(text cache<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n

Right on, Justice Orr. And thanks to the N&O for its continuing attention to the flagrant self-dealing of the Prosecutors Club, most recently this account<\/a>\u00a0(text cache<\/a>) by Joseph Neff contrasting the bar\u2019s two sets of ethical standards:<\/p>\n

\u201cFor 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.<\/p>\n

\u201cDuring the same time, the bar privately dismissed complaints that three prominent prosecutors \u2013 one running for attorney general, another now a Superior Court judge \u2013 used a false affidavit in a racially divisive case that has roiled Winston-Salem for more than a decade….\u201d<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve even seen it suggested that the situation demands a separate panel specializing in prosecutorial misconduct<\/a>\u00a0(text cache<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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Feb. 8, 2016 \u201cBob Orr, a former North Carolina Supreme Court justice, says it\u2019s time for a comprehensive outside review of the state agency that oversees lawyers. \u201cOrr… is part of a committee looking at legal professionalism as part of Chief Justice Mark Martin\u2019s recently launched review of the state justice system…. \u201cThe call for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1944"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1962,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1944\/revisions\/1962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}