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For at least the third time in the past five years, a criminal conviction has been thrown out of Roanokeâs federal court based on prosecutorsâ failure to reveal evidence that might have helped the accused.
In the most recent case, charges were dismissed Monday against Amany Raya, who was convicted last year of conspiring to smuggle a cellphone to her boyfriend in the Roanoke City Jail, where he was awaiting trial on drug charges.
Raya, 39, was free on bond awaiting sentencing when the case against her began to unravel.
In January, defense attorney Aaron Cook filed a motion for a new trial, claiming that prosecutors had failed to tell Rayaâs previous attorney about information that suggested other people might have been involved in the crime she was convicted of.
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The British taekwondo star who switched allegiances to Moldova
In 2014, just hours after securing his third European taekwondo gold medal, Aaron Cook was ushered into a poorly lit backroom at the host arena in Baku, capital of Azerbaijan. The Moldovan taekwondo president wanted to speak with him.
Risks and rewards of a US return to Central Asia
Aaron Cook: The British taekwondo star who switched allegiances to Moldova
By Nick HopeBBC Olympic sports reporter
Last updated on
5 May 20215 May 2021.From the section Taekwondo
An explosive icon of taekwondo, Cook (pictured here in 2011) is still chasing his dream of Olympic gold
Aaron Cook remembers the tears in his eyes as he thinks back to that historic day for British taekwondo: 9 August 2012.
It was a moment he d dreamt of since being inspired to take up the sport as a five-year-old. It was one of the iconic moments of the London Olympics.
But the moment was not his.
Instead it was his friend Jade Jones who claimed Britain s first ever Olympic taekwondo gold while he was watching from the stands, having been sensationally and highly controversially overlooked for the Team GB squad.
The retrial of Mashkhal Ibrahim for the hit-and-run case of former JMU student Jared Antle ended in mistrial Friday after almost seven hours of deliberation by the jury. Antleâs parents sat front row, heads bowed, as Judge T.J. Wilson IV announced the mistrial. Ibrahim had no family in the room due to a court ruling limiting the number of attendees.
Aaron Cook, Ibrahimâs defense attorney, said even without a verdict of not guilty for Ibrahim, another mistrial is also disappointing, as it means more time involved and continued uncertainty for both Ibrahimâs and Antleâs families.