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.
The current DA up there is Martha Coakley. She was involved in the Fells Acres case and the Nanny Case. I think she is running for AG, isn't she? Does she have any opposition?
It sure is a bad and iffy way to run the business of LE. But NC presents an unusual set of legal circumstances and procedures that leaves cases like this unchecked.
The people of NC should be up in arms and writing to their legislatures to make the necessary changes in the laws such that a runaway freight train like Liefong can only get so far down the tracks before the plug gets pulled on his steam engine. Doing away with the mandatory-for-felonies indicting grand jury with no probable cause hearing would be good for starters. Another change that should be considered would be something that at least provides for a nod at the Sixth Amendment.