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Witness testimony wrapped up Tuesday on the second day of a hearing to determine whether District Attorney Greg Newman should be removed from office.

As another victim of sexual assault took the stand in District Attorney Greg Newman's removal hearing and witnesses testified to his character, the second day of testimony showed clearly the two sides of the argument.  Witnesses called Newman "one of the good guys," while an alleged sexual assault survivor emotionally confronted him over his refusal to pursue her case and the way he treated her. Grace Pryor was a student at Brevard College when she says she was raped by two fellow students almost six years ago to the day. She said Brevard Police investigated the matter and told her that Newm...

Watch the closing arguments in the removal hearing of NC District Attorney Greg Newman Joyce Orlando, Asheville Citizen Times © Maya Carter/Asheville Citizen Times District attorney Greg Newman listens to testimony from Angelica Wind, executive director of Our Voice, on Tuesday, April 13, 2021. The removal hearing of District Attorney Greg Newman is nearing completion with closing arguments starting at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday.  Newman, who has served as the District Attorney for District 29 B since 2013 representing Henderson, Transylvania and Polk counties, faced a second day...

Testifying April 12 before a judge in a hearing on his removal from office, District Attorney Greg Newman remained adamant that he’s done his job properly even in the face of the state bar finding otherwise.  Newman, who has served as the District Attorney for District 29 B since 2013 representing Henderson, Transylvania and Polk counties, is in district court this week for a hearing on whether he should be removed from office.  In an earlier hearing, Judge Robert Ervin ruled that the independent counsel did not have to relitigate findings of fact in Newman’s disciplinary cases before t...

Warning: Story contains descriptions of sexual violence. Grace Pryor thinks back with remarkable clarity to that murky, nightmarish night six years ago, when she was stumbling back to her dorm room at Brevard College. Pryor, now 26 and an aspiring doctor of audiology, knew she’d had too much Bacardi to be driving home in the early morning of April 12, 2015. But she was alert enough to remember the alleged rape by two basketball players she called friends. In addition to that trauma were the stinging words of District Attorney Greg Newman, whose job Pryor thought was to uphold justice. �...