Mother’s Day (In Court)

A censure was imposed by a Grievance Committee of the North Carolina State Bar

In July 2023, while employed as an assistant district attorney, you dismissed a speeding citation that was pending against your mother in the prosecutorial district where you were employed. You were aware that your office had a clear policy to notify the elected district attorney if a family member was charged with a matter that would be prosecuted by the office. You did not notify the district attorney when you learned of the citation and did not disclose your dismissal of the citation until you were confronted about the dismissal two months later.

Need to reflect

You are hereby censured by the North Carolina State Bar for your violation of the Rules of Professional Conduct. The Grievance Committee trusts that you will ponder this censure, recognize the error that you have made, and that you will never again allow yourself to depart from adherence to the high ethical standards of the legal profession. This censure should serve as a strong reminder and inducement for you to weigh carefully in the future your responsibility to the public, your clients, your fellow attorneys and the courts, to the end that you demean yourself as a respected member of the legal profession whose conduct may be relied upon without question.

(Mike Frisch)