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Lawyers for embattled 'dancing doctor' demand her license get reinstated during hearing

ATLANTA — "Dancing doctor" Windell Boutte is telling a judge that our consumer investigator Jim Strickland is at the root of an onslaught of negative media coverage against her.

Strickland has learned Boutte is trying to silence one of his key sources in this investigation.

While Boutte had a team in Fulton County fighting to get her license back at a hearing on Thursday, in DeKalb, her malpractice attorney filed a document blaming Strickland's source for poisoning the jury pool in Boutte's many malpractice cases.

With the number of women we were hearing from who were injured at Boutte's office, Channel 2 Action News believes the public has a right to know.

Plaintiff's attorney Susan Witt argues attorneys have the right to speak out in matters involving immediate public threat. The attorney general's office said the threat was real when the medical board suspended Boutte's license two weeks ago.

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Boutte wants Fulton Superior Judge Tom Campbell to reinstate her license until a state hearing, where she can make her case.

"I was supposed to get a bikini figure, now I’ll never wear a bikini again," said former Boutte patient, Kristine Dolly.

Dolly is one of the first of Boutte's patients to go on camera to talk about her lawsuit and a surgery that made her look disfigured.

In a filing in Dolly's lawsuit, Boutte complains that Strickland started the avalanche of negative media coverage locally and nationally.

Boutte is asking a judge to essentially put a gag order on Witt.

Witt had first tipped Strickland to the case of a brain-damaged Boutte patient, Icilma Cornelius.

Dolly came forward when Strickland  asked for additional cases.

No immediate decision was made on Boutte's license from Campbell on Thursday.

Campbell wants to hear from the attorney again by next Wednesday.