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MATTER OF PALMER

No. 90.

252 S.E.2d 784 (1979)

296 N.C. 638

In the Matter of the suspension of the right to practice law of William Cornelius PALMER.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

March 16, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Atty. Gen. Rufus L. Edmisten by Associate Atty. Gen. Joan H. Byers, Raleigh, for the State.

McElwee, Hall & McElwee by William H. McElwee, III, North Wilkesboro, and Robert A. Melott, for appellee.

Harold D. Coley, Jr., Raleigh, amicus curiae, for The North Carolina State Bar.

BRITT, Justice.

The first question for our consideration is whether Judge Snepp's order is reviewable by the appellate division. We hold that it is.

In holding that this cause is not reviewable at the behest of the state, the Court of Appeals relied upon the decision of this Court in In re Stiers, 204 N.C. 48, 167 S.E. 382 (1933), a case involving suspension of an attorney's privilege to practice law. There, an attorney who had entered a plea of

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