Dunkley v. Shoemate

ORR, Justice.

The sole question presented in this case is whether the trial court erred in failing to remove the law firm of Patterson, Dilthey, Clay & Bryson, L.L.P., as counsel for defendant Lee H. Shoemate. Pertinent facts and circumstances in this case are as follows.

On 5 January 1989, Shoemate, representing that he had received his undergraduate degree from the University of Texas and that he was an M.D./Ph.D. candidate at Harvard Medical School expecting to graduate in August of 1989, applied for a psychiatry residency at the University of North Carolina Hospitals at Chapel Hill (“UNC”).…