A State Bar Court judge dismissed all disciplinary charges against a Los Angeles solo practitioner accused of attempting to incite violence with her inflammatory social media posts about the 2020 George Floyd murder protests.

In an order dated Oct. 3, Judge Dennis Saab wrote that while Marla Brown’s tweets saying looters and vandalizers should be shot were “unbecoming of an attorney,” they amounted to speech protected by the First Amendment.

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