The N.C. Supreme Court agreed this afternoon to keep two convicted murderers behind bars for now.
Attorneys for the state had asked the Supreme Court to block their release and review a superior court judge's order to free them, Mandy Locke reports. The Supreme Court agreed to keep Faye Brown [...]
Doug Clark says the problem with convicted murderers being released isn’t lenient judges, “it’s that back in the more liberal 1970s, legislators carved huge loopholes in sentencing laws.”
Sounded so good in the ’70s, didn’t it? Today we have the Racial Justice Act, passed by a General Assembly [...]
The law and press release collided in a Wake County courtroom Friday when lawyers for the state tried to explain the significance of an avalanche of news reports in October over the release of dozens of murderers and rapists.
On Friday, one of the prisoners, Faye Brown, asked a judge to [...]
