State Bar & Bar Associations
May 30, 2023
Retired justice can’t testify at law professor’s discipline trial
Attorneys for John Eastman argued that Janice Rogers Brown is qualified to argue that the State Bar’s pursuit of disciplinary charges against Eastman “seems to be moving into [uncharted] territory with seeking to discipline an attorney on one side of a contentious legal fight.”
The disbarment trial of former Chapman University Fowler School of Law professor John C. Eastman is scheduled to start June 20, but it will not include testimony from former California Supreme Court Justice Janice Rogers Brown, a State Bar judge ruled.
State Bar prosecutors have charged Eastman with planning, promoting and assisting then-President Donald Trump in a strategy to overturn the legitimate results of the 2020 presidential electi...
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