Belk Loses Law License for Three Years

RALEIGH — A three-member panel of the state’s Disciplinary Hearing Commission decided at an Oct. 21 hearing to suspend former Mecklenburg County Judge Bill Belk’s law license for three years for violating a rule of conduct. Belk, who insists the violation is nothing more than a misunderstanding he “tried to correct and that had no bearing on my role as a judge,” could have been disbarred for life.