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Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 02:50 Written by rslcpol Friday, 26 February 2010 02:59
From TheTimesNews.com:
North Carolina’s longest-serving lawmaker won’t serve jail time after pleading guilty Thursday to misdemeanor assault for shooting a former client in a case that earlier had been deemed a felony.
Columbus County Superior Court Judge D. Jack Hooks accepted the guilty plea from Sen. R.C. Soles, D-Columbus, and fined Soles $1,000. Soles had been indicted last month on a felony assault charge. The state constitution would have disqualified Soles from public office had he been convicted of a felony.
First elected to the General Assembly in 1968, Soles is the state’s longest continuously serving lawmaker.
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