Posted on 09/07/2005 9:48:56 AM PDT by TaxRelief
RALEIGH, N.C. -- In an unusual move by the N.C. State Bar, the regulatory group has charged a former district attorney and his assistant with prosecutorial misconduct in a 1996 murder case that ended in a death sentence.
(snip) Last week, the bar filed the charges of prosecutorial misconduct against Kenneth Honeycutt, the former district attorney of Union County, and his assistant, Scott Brewer. The bar charged that Honeycutt and Brewer each committed 23 violations of the rules that govern lawyers.
In the past decade, the bar has only disciplined four prosecutors for misconduct.
Honeycutt and Brewer lied to the trial judge, the jury and the defense lawyers and knowingly used false evidence at the trial, the bar charged. If they are found guilty in a hearing before the bar, punishment could range from a written reprimand to the loss of their law licenses.
Honeycutt is a former president of the N.C. Conference of District Attorneys who retired as district attorney in October after an unsuccessful run for the state House of Representatives. Brewer is a District Court judge based in Rockingham.(snip)
[Jonathon] Hoffman was sentenced to death for the robbery and murder of Danny Cook, a jewelry store owner in Marshville, located southeast of Charlotte.
(Excerpt) Read more at news14charlotte.com ...
And crooked mega-shyster John Edwards gets praises from this same group. Will Edwards get disciplined for personally raised the North Carolina Caeserian section rate from 6% to 22% of all births... with absolutely no effect on the rate of Cerebral Palsy?
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