Mentors........ Jim Hardin charge Leon Brown with rape back in 2002. Brown was implicated by another man who they caught cold. Hardin gave than man total immunity to testify against Brown. Brown voluntarily gave his DNA and there was no match. He sat in jail for a year. He was acquitted and the jury foreman said the trial was a total waste of time.
I left NC before 2002. Did not know anything about this case until I read about it recently. That brings up a question. Was Hardin running for election at that time? Quite possibly he was since it was 4 years ago and DA serves elective office for 4 years.