The Arizona State Bar has declined to dismiss the complaint against Cochise County Attorney Brian McIntyre at the intake stage. Complaints are typically dismissed at the intake stage if they do not describe a plausible violation of the ethical rules covering attorneys. The Bar will now decide whether the formal complaint filed this week by former Pima County Supervisor Ally Miller and attorney Alex Kolodin against McIntyre warrants opening a full investigation.
The controversial McIntyre last made headlines when he was arrested for drunk driving by Sierra Vista Police.
Miller says she filed the complaint on behalf of Supervisors across the state who, like her, have found themselves confronting ethical lapses by county attorneys who “seem to cave to political pressures, not principles.”
As previously reported by the Arizona Daily Independent, Miller and Kolodin urged the State Bar to investigate a potential breach of McIntyre’s attorney-client privilege with the Cochise County Board of Supervisors.
In their complaint Miller and Kolodin allege that McIntyre breached his obligation to the Supervisors on two occasions. The first came when he publicly revealed privileged advice that he provided in executive session. The second occurred when he provided such advice to opposing counsel in civil litigation against the Board of Supervisors.
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