PHOENIX Kari Lake’s attorney is suspended from practicing law for 60 days after lying to the Arizona Supreme Court about the record in her case, the state’s presiding disciplinary
A former prosecutor with the Maricopa County Attorney's Office in Arizona has had her law license suspended after a panel with the state bar determined that she showed "a disturbing pattern of excessive charging" in the cases of some protestors, at least one of whom was an "innocent man."On Tuesday,.
Joshua Lott/ReutersThe State Bar of Arizona suspended on Tuesday a former Maricopa County prosecutor who was fired last year for wrongfully charging 15 Black Lives Matter protesters as gang members in 2020. Judge Margaret Downie ruled that April Sponsel “violated duties owed to her client, to the members of the public, to the legal system, and to the profession.” Despite over 40 felony cases being let go, Sponsel denied she was at fault. The prosecutor was dismissed from her position in June 202