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  • Reporter Apologizes; Charge dismissed [Don't mess with the Fayetteville, NC Police!]

    04/28/2005 10:35:50 AM PDT · by TaxRelief · 15 replies · 765+ views
    News 14 Carolina ^ | 4/28/2005 10:35 AM | Robert Boyer
    FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. -- The Cumberland County District Attorney's Office has dismissed a misdemeanor criminal charge against a former Fayetteville Observer reporter in exchange for his apology to the city's police chief. The reporter, Robert Boyer, was arrested in March 2004 and charged with resisting a police officer because he refused two officers' orders to leave a street where a murder occurred. Boyer went to the street to the interview people for a story about the murder. At a trial in January, District Court Judge Cheri Beasley found Boyer guilty. He appealed to Superior Court for a jury trial. Assistant District...