Charleston lawyer reinstated after jail time

The state Supreme Court has reinstated a lawyer who spent more than seven years in prison for killing a jogger on The Battery in Charleston while driving drunk.
   
Mark Evans was disbarred in 1996 after he pleaded guilty to felony drunken driving. The lawyer turned himself in to police three days after his car jumped a curb and hit Laura Griffin, who later died from head injuries.

In a ruling issued Monday, the justices noted this is the first time they’ve been asked to reinstate someone whose crime involved a death. But they ruled the seriousness of Evans’ crime should not prevent him from practicing law after he’s turned his life around.

But they put conditions on their decision, and Evans must undergo two years of monitoring.