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While the highlight of President Joe Biden's week may have been driving an electric Ford F-150 on the track in Michigan, he also had to contend with continued strife in Israel and Gaza, helping to negotiate a precarious ceasefire. Elsewhere, in the United Kingdom, the Royal Family dealt with the fallout from a damning report about the BBC's conduct regarding a 1995 interview with Princess Diana. Prince Harry meanwhile, launched his docuseries,...

Bill addresses judicial efficiency in western counties Sen. Kevin Corbin A House bill proposed by Western North Carolina reps. Mike Clampitt, R-Bryson City, and Mark Pless, R-Haywood, includes significant changes to a judicial district that is larger than the states of Delaware and Rhode Island combined. “Population for this area is growing exponentially, the number of cases are growing exponentially. Dockets get to be so long and there’s so many court cases,” said Clampitt of H405 , which was filed in the House with Clampitt and Pless as primary sponsors on March 24. The ...

In an unusual move, the N.C. Administrative Office of the Courts has reassigned an Asheville School sexual assault case to District Attorney Ashley Welch of the 43rd district, the second time the case has been referred in less than a month.  The case began when Agnes Hill, a former student at the wealthy, private Asheville School, filed a criminal complaint Oct. 27, 2020 with the Asheville Police Department claiming she had been sexually assaulted as a 15-year-old freshman by an older male student in 2019. The case was first conflicted out of Buncombe County District Attorney Todd Williams�...

Katharine England On February 17, 2021, the Maine State Police obtained a warrant for the arrest of 46-year-old Seth Carey of Rumford, Maine.  Carey was arrested this afternoon in Orlando, Florida, and is currently being held at the Orange County Jail.  This investigation began in March of 2018 when a 34-year-old female reported to the Rumford Police Department that she had been sexually assaulted by Carey.   Because Carey was a locally practicing attorney in the Rumford area, the local District Attorney’s Office (Prosecutorial District III) asked that the Maine State Police handle the i...

Longtime Chatham, Orange County District Attorney Announces Retirement Plans Longtime District Attorney Jim Woodall recently announced plans to retire at the end of his term. Woodall has served as the district attorney for Prosecutorial District 18, which encompasses all of Orange and Chatham Counties, since 2005. Previously, he served as the district’s assistant district attorney for 17 years. He alerted the judicial district’s bar about his decision with a letter on Monday, saying he will not run for re-election in 2022. “I have generally let it be known over the last few months that...