Lawmaker's law license suspended over conflicts of interest in murder case (1 Viewer)

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    A Republican Kansas lawmaker who already dropped his re-election campaign last month after he was arrested in a traffic stop has now been barred from practicing law for at least a year for mishandling conflicts of interest in a murder case.

    The Kansas Supreme Court ruled that state Rep. Carl Maughan of Colwich violated professional standards while representing 57-year-old Bret Blevins in a 2016 crash that killed two men, according to the Kansas City Star. The court ruled that Maughan's actions placed "an undue burden on resources of the criminal...

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