“An incumbent polling under 50% is in trouble.”
Correct.
North Carolina needs judicial reform; enactment of a Speedy Trial law; a requirement for Grand Juries to keep transcripts; bail reform; the right of a defendant to have a Probable Cause hearing; and many other things, any one of which could have prevented the Duke lacrosse frame-up.
As of now, there is nothing in place to prevent another such frame-up attempt in a few years.
Where was Dole when all of this was happening?