BAR PRESIDENT URGES FINANCE REFORM; JUDICIAL CANDIDATES ARE COMPROMISED BY CAMPAIGN DONATIONS, SAYS THE NEW PRESIDENT OF THE AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION.(TRIAD/STATE)

From: The News & Record (Piedmont Triad, NC) | Date: August 29, 2002| Author: Fuchs, Mike | Copyright information

Byline: MIKE FUCHS Staff Writer

GREENSBORO -- Changing how judges get elected has been a hot topic in North Carolina lately.

But it's also a topic new American Bar Association President Alfred P. Carlton Jr., a Greensboro native, has been outspoken on.

Carlton argued for the need to reform how judges are elected in North Carolina and elsewhere during a Greensboro Rotary Club luncheon Wednesday.

He cited a recent poll conducted for the ba...

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