by Bert | Jul 5, 2016 | North Carolina
A recent Court of Appeals decision out of North Carolina reveals a stunning tale of prosecutorial manipulation and misconduct in Wake County. While pursuing robbery charges against two defendants for holding up a club promoter, the lead prosecutor in the case,...
by Sophie | Sep 3, 2014 | North Carolina, The Open File Blog
The murder case which inspired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia to suggest that such a crime made it “hard to argue against lethal injection,” and which the North Carolina Republican Party used to accuse a Democrat of being soft on crime in 2010...
by OpenFile | Mar 20, 2014 | North Carolina, The Open File Blog
Radley Balko’s latest post for The Washington Post features an in-depth look at the case of Darryl Howard, a Durham man who was convicted of murder in North Carolina in 1995. There are lingering questions about Howard’s guilt, in part because key evidence...
by Jane | Aug 28, 2013 | North Carolina, The Open File Blog
A three-judge panel for the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit issued a blistering critique of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina in an opinion filed August 23, 2013. The Fourth Circuit considered a number of...
by OpenFile | May 22, 2013 | North Carolina, The Open File Blog
On May 18, The New York Times wrote an editorial about the 50 year anniversary of Brady v. Maryland that explores the insufficiency of what it terms “the Brady rule” (that is, the obligation of the state to turn over exculpatory evidence to defendants) in...
