North Carolina State Bar v. Talford

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 (2) whether the Court of Appeals erred by deciding that the DHC’s findings of fact failed to support its ultimate conclusion that…