NORTH CAROLINA STATE BAR v. TALFORD

No. 24PA02.

576 S.E.2d 305 (2003)

356 N.C. 626

The NORTH CAROLINA STATE BAR v. Robert M. TALFORD, Attorney.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

February 28, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carolin Bakewell, Raleigh, for plaintiff-appellant.

Irving Joyner, Cary, for defendant-appellee.

Roy Cooper, Attorney General, by Thomas R. Miller, Special Deputy Attorney General, on behalf of the North Carolina Real Estate Commission; and the North Carolina Real Estate Commission, by Blackwell M. Brogden, Jr., Chief Deputy Legal Counsel, and Pamela V. Millward, amicus curiae.


ORR, Justice.

This appeal arises out of a unanimous Court of Appeals decision that reversed a State Bar Disciplinary Hearing Commission (DHC) disbarment judgment against defendant, Robert M. Talford, a licensed attorney in North Carolina. The issues in the case, as submitted by the DHC, can be summarized as follows: (1) whether the Court of Appeals overstepped its designated appellate authority by reversing the DHC's decision to disbar defendant from practice, and...

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