I just interviewed Wayne Blevins, executive director of the Nevada State Bar, about defense lawyer Joe Caramagno, who caused a mistrial in a kidnapping case by showing up in court to represent his client less than fully sober according to a breathalyzer test.

Blevins told me that Caramagno was representing as many as 100 cases when that incident happened last month. But since then the courts and the Bar have intervened to lessen this latest black eye to the integrity of the Vegas legal profession. Blevins said Caramagno "is presently in a rehab center and his current cases have been assigned to some attorneys here in Nevada and those attorneys have volunteered their time and effort to accommodate the cases as a service to the Bar."