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?
“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?”
No better than the Democratic establishment. Attorney General Roy Cooper got the spotlight moment for declaring the players “innocent,” which they transparently were.
In reality, he had all the legal justification he needed to take over the investigation within two months of the allegations emerging. Due to Democratic party politics, he chose not to, until Nifong was hit with an ethics complaint and was forced off the case and opposing him was no longer a politically courageous step. Justice was delayed six months or more because the DP was invested in Nifong’s position.