Is there a specific criminal penalty attached to that law, or is it just the usual disclosure requirement that results in the evidence being tossed if its not disclosed?
I am not familiar with the consequences, but I know we are what is called an "open case file" state, which means he is REQUIRED to give the defense whatever he has "in a timely manner."
Not only did he not give it to them, the defense had to get the judge to ORDER him to give the results; and he never did -- he stuck it in a "document drop" in October, FGS!
Now, it doesn't take a legal genius to figure out he got Meehan to leave out the results so that he wouldn't have a WRITTEN report to hand over to the defense AND he wouldn't have any exculpatory evidence to give to the Grand Jury.
Keep in mind that by April 28th, the date the second tests were given to him, he KNEW positively that Seligmann, Finnery, and Evans were 100 percent excluded.
However, this being NC and our crappy laws, I'm sure the Democratic legislature wrote in some loophole to excuse this action.
I am FUMING.