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Henderson County News: LIVE COVERAGE: Hearing on removal of District Attorney Newman


 Superior Court Judge Robert C. Ervin convened a hearing on the removal of Newman on Monday morning.
James P. Cooney III, the independent counsel, said in opening arguments that ample grounds exist to warrant the removal of the district attorney. He cited the three pillars of the case against the elected prosecutor for Henderson, Polk and Transylvania counties:
A plea deal Newman made that allowed a defendant charged with five child sexual abuse felonies to plead guilty to one misdemeanor in a brief proceeding that the victim was not made aware of.
The successful charge of vindictive prosecution by a defendant jailed for eight and a half years, a case currently on appeal before the state Supreme Court. ....

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Henderson County Four Seasons Politics: Timeline of District Attorney Newman case


 
June 12, 2014: Valerie Marie Owenby, who was then 12 years old, and her mother, Carol Lynn Owenby, report to the Henderson County sheriff’s office that James Franklin Sapp, a next door neighbor, had sexually assaulted her from the time she was 5 years old to the present.
Aug. 6, 2014: Sheriff’s Detective Tonya Reeves submits a search warrant application detailing Valerie’s accusations of sexual assault by Sapp from the time she was 5 until she was 12 and her accusations that Sapp “told her she would kill her dad if she told anyone” and when he stopped the abuse threatened to kill her family if she told anyone. The search warrant, granted by Superior Court Judge Mark Powell, compels Sapp to pose for photos from the waist down to corroborate Valerie’s statement that he had identifying marks around his penis area. ....

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