Atlanta attorney Millard Farmer—who built his legal career as an aggressive and often controversial civil rights lawyer and death penalty foe—has been disbarred by the Supreme Court of Georgia.

The high court formally disbarred Farmer on Monday, finding that he engaged in “an extensive pattern of disciplinary infractions” during the course of representing a client in a long-running child custody case that made disbarment “the only appropriate sanction.”

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