Before you move to NC, remember it has been called more corrupt than Louisiana.
It has no speedy trial law, and a prosecutor may (and some have) hold a defendant up to four and five years in jail BEFORE trial. Its grand juries keep no records of testimony (meaning a DA can lie to the grand jury to get an indictment, and never be called on it.)
It just passed a law permitting a DA to excuse himself from handing over proof of innocence to a defendant, by claiming that the police never showed it to him. (That’s an excuse big enough to drive a 747 through.)
The Duke lacrosse case could almost not have happened in any other state—because the accused players were never allowed to present their proof of innocence to a court (and they were never interviewed by police or the DA in the year the case lasted). The case would have been over in five minutes if they had been allowed to do so.
It’s not called a “constitution-free zone” for nothing.
Wow. My thinking on this hasn’t been nearly that thoughtful but thanks for the information. Definitely good to know. I’ve been stuck on the fact that I like having sushi and Indian food and (really good) pizza delivered to my house on my work from home days while my coworkers in Charlotte and Raleigh-Cary can not. Sounds pretty trivial compared to your very good point about the legal system.
Thank you.
Yea, but all of that is cancelled out by Price's Chicken Coop, Pinehurst, Nascar, bass-fishin, college basketball and, of course REAL BARBECUE!!