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Some cops are too untrustworthy to testify. But local prosecutors won't reveal who they are


Some cops are too untrustworthy to testify. But local prosecutors won’t reveal who they are
Nick Ochsner
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Mecklenburg County District Attorney Spencer Merriweather is among the district attorneys refusing to produce Giglio letters, without explaining how the justification he cites to withhold the information conforms with the law.
Locked away in prosecutors’ offices across North Carolina sit documents declaring certain law enforcement officers in their jurisdiction too untrustworthy to testify in court.
Prosecutors can issue the documents, known as Giglio letters, when they become aware of information about a police officer or sheriff’s deputy that would call into question their credibility on the stand. When a district attorney decides that an officer is not credible, the officer is likely to no longer be called as a witness in court. Being functionally unable to testify in court means they cannot make arre ....

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State report calls for greater police transparency


State report calls for greater police transparency
A task force founded by Gov. Roy Cooper in the wake of violent protests after the police killing of Minneapolis man George Floyd last summer makes dozens of recommendations to strengthen and support North Carolina’s law enforcement community, including several that would lead to greater transparency by law enforcement agencies. 
“It’s high time that North Carolina’s open government laws move out of the basement and into the vanguard of the best open government states in the country,” said John Bussian, a Raleigh intellectual property and media attorney. 
Currently, state laws make the disclosure of disciplinary records of state employees especially police and teachers difficult or impossible, which can perpetuate the hiring and continuing employment of so-called “bad apples.” ....

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