Well, not so fast. NC has some unusual laws and the particular indicting grand jury system they use leaves the people ripe for this kind of abuse. This case presented a perfect storm of political circumstances, personalities and events converging within a rather unusual legal system that allowed this travesty to be set into motion and move forward judicially unchecked. In other words, most other states have checks and balances that would have derailed this before it got anywhere near this far down the road.
I hope you are right, but here in Massachusetts we had the travesty of the Fells Acre Day Care, repressed memories, and another DA trying to make his political bone - Scott Harshbarger.
There are clearly some very upstanding, bright and hard working prosecutors and police - but there are also a fair number of losers. It is the absence of checks and balances that makes me nervous. In this case many on this and other sites have operated as those checks and balances - but that is a lousy way to run a LE process.