North Carolina has created a constitutionally protected right to demonstrate one’s innocence post-conviction with new evidence and DNA testing. After plaintiff was convicted of two murders he did not commit, the DNA of another man was identified from evidence at ...

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Petitioners are media organizations who seek the release of police body-camera footage of the arrest of a Duke University basketball player. Since petitioners are not individuals depicted in the footage, they were required to file a civil action, rather than ...

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HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A judge has ended the nearly 50 years of federal oversight of police in Hartford, Connecticut, despite continued concerns the department still has not hired enough minority officers to reflect the city’s large Black and Hispanic ...

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DALLAS (AP) — A prominent civil rights attorney was among a group of people arrested in a Dallas suburb during a demonstration in memory of a Black man who died in a struggle with guards at an area jail. McKinney ...

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The defendant-store’s staff suspected plaintiff, a pregnant African-American woman, of shoplifting, and the staff asked an off-duty police officer, who was also shopping in the store, to speak with plaintiff. Plaintiff voluntarily showed her stomach to the officer, demonstrating that ...

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Law enforcement agencies are not permitted to allow the viewing of custodial law enforcement agency recordings (CLEARs) absent compliance with court orders resulting from proceedings under G.S. § 132-1.4A. Subsection (f) thereof allows certain persons to ask to view CLEARs ...

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Where the defendant-hospital allegedly failed to provide the deaf plaintiff with any way to communicate during his three-day stay – despite his early and repeated requests – plaintiff’s complaint states claims under the Rehabilitation Act and the Affordable Care Act. ...

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By Jason Thomas [email protected]  On Nov. 4, Carolina Law alumni, students, faculty and staff are joined members of Sylvia X. Allen’s family as well as special guests for the unveiling of the portrait of Sylvia X. Allen, a 1962 graduate.   ...

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The estate of a man who died after overdosing on methamphetamine while in the custody of the Cherokee County Sheriff’s Department has settled its lawsuit against the office for $1.8 million. Ellis Boyle of Knott & Boyle in Raleigh and ...

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Cherokee County has agreed to pay $4 million to a woman who was unlawfully removed from her home when she was a minor by Department of Social Services employees who created and executed a fraudulent document that illegally separated dozens of families ...

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