by Michelle Sparrow | Dec 10, 2010 | Criminal Defense, Criminal Law Blog
In our last post, we were discussing the progress made by the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation’s efforts to implement changes promised by leadership following an investigative news story and an audit last summer. It will come as no surprise to many... by Michelle Sparrow | Dec 8, 2010 | Criminal Defense, Criminal Law Blog
The North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation’s crime lab had followed policies and indulged in practices that a Raleigh newspaper and an independent auditor found were unethical, scientifically unsound, biased or all three. Leadership promised immediate... by Michelle Sparrow | Dec 2, 2010 | Criminal Law Blog, Homicide
In August of 2009, a Raleigh man slowed his Jeep Cherokee to make a left turn. Another car, driven by a 34-year-old Louisburg man, smashed into the Jeep and left. The police caught up with him a short time later and put him under arrest. He was drunk, and now he was...