Former Judicial Candidate Charged With Ethics Lapses

The North Carolina state Bar has filed a complaint alleging that an attorney engaged in misconduct in the domestic cases of herself and others.

The complaint alleges that she had failed to comply with a court-ordered mental health and substance abuse evaluation, filed a frivolous lawsuit and filed judicial ethics complaints with basis against judges involved in her divorce case.

The complaint seeks either a disability suspension or a suspension based on misconduct.

The Winston-Salem Journal reported in 2012 that the attorney -then a candidate for judicial office – had been accused of stalking.

A former boyfriend of Amy Allred, a Winston-Salem lawyer running for Forsyth district court judge, told city police in 2010 that Allred struck him in the head with a remote control. Then, he told police in 2011 that she stalked him after they broke up, according to police reports on the incidents.

David Arden Amundson, 50, the ex-boyfriend, refused to cooperate in prosecuting Allred, according to the police report, and Allred was never criminally charged. He never obtained a domestic-violence protective order against Allred.