If you are keeping score, that's a total of 10 guilty pleas to criminal charges in the Hayes case. We have no guilty pleas, and no criminal charges, in the Marshall case.
*A Matter of Sanctions--Even though she was not hit with any criminal charges, Marshall received a four-year suspension of her law license. The Hayes case generated 10 guilty pleas to criminal charges, and how did the Alabama State Bar handle that? Hayes and Roden received two-year suspensions, and Carter was suspended for 247 days. Again, if you are keeping track, here is how the scoreboard reads:
Kenya Lavender Marshall--0 guilty pleas equals four-year suspension
Hayes, Roden and Carter--10 guilty pleas equal suspensions of two years or less
*Insight on Investigations--Marshall's case started when a client, Orlandera Johnson Jr., filed a bar complaint in January 2010. (By the way, Johnson's father, Orlandera Johnson Sr., was a longtime police officer in the City of Homewood. Johnson Sr.was killed in a car crashnear Bessemer on January 5, 2010.) The Alabama State Bar announced a temporary suspension of Marshall's license on August 3. That means the investigation in Marshall's case took roughly eight months
What about the length of the investigation in the Hayes case? It started with a bar complaint in June 1994. That prompted a 13-month investigation that ended in July 1995. No action was taken for another 10 months. The bar finally filed formal disciplinary charges on May 15, 1996. Again, if you are keeping track, here is our scoreboard:
Kenya Lavender Marshall--Total elapsed time from filing of bar complaint to discipline: Eight months.
Hayes, Roden and Carter--Total elapsed time: Almost two years.
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