North Carolina State Bar v. Frazier

JOHNSON, Judge.

I

In his first assignment of error, defendant indirectly challenges the Committee’s order by attacking the composition of the State Bar Hearing Commission. Specifically, he contends that the members of the Hearing Commission of the North Carolina State Bar are appointed in violation of the Separation of Powers clause in Article 1, Section 6 of the North Carolina Constitution which reads: “The legislative, executive, and supreme judicial powers of the State government shall be forever separate and distinct from each other.”

Membership on the Hearing Commission is statutorily…