State Bar & Bar Associations
Nov. 9, 2023
State Bar appeals acquittal of lawyer who tweeted shoot protesters
Akili P. Nickson of the Office of Chief Trial Counsel prosecuted the ethics case against Marla A. Brown this year and argued in a post trial brief that there was enough evidence shown during trial to prove her tweets caused harm to the public and profession and warranted a stayed suspension of one year.
State Bar prosecutors asked the agency’s appellate panel this week to review a judge’s dismissal of all four charges against a Los Angeles attorney who misrepresented herself and posted tweets urging that rioters, looters and protesters should be shot during the nationwide violence that followed the 2020 murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
Akili P. Nickson of the Office of Chief Trial Counsel prosecuted the ethics case against Marla A. ...
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