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The family of a Limerick businessman brutally beaten to death by his American wife and her father have insisted they retain full faith in the US justice system.
But the family of father-of-two Jason Corbett (39) vowed that, irrespective of the outcome of a Supreme Court appeal by his killers next month, their commitment to seeing justice done will never waver.
The vow came as Molly Martens (37) and her father Tom Martens (70) are due to have an oral appeal hearing dealt with by the North Carolina Supreme Court on January 11.
They secured a shock ruling, by a two-to-one split decision, at North Carolina Court of Appeals last February recommending that their convictions be set aside.
Updated December 23, 2020 2:25 p.m. EST
By BRYAN ANDERSON, Associated Press/Report for America
RALEIGH, N.C. The North Carolina Supreme Court on Wednesday removed a portrait of a former chief justice from its courtroom who staunchly defended slavery and owned slaves himself.
Thomas Ruffin, a slave owner in the 1800s, believed an owner s power over his slave was absolute. He once wrote in a court ruling that slaveholders should not be convicted for the assault or battery of an enslaved person.
The court s decision to remove the portrait took note of Ruffin s slave ownership and his rulings defending slavery. Its announcement said Ruffin was regarded by his contemporaries as “particularly brutal in his ownership of slaves.”
NC Supreme Court removes portrait of slave owner ex-justice
The North Carolina Supreme Court on Wednesday removed a portrait of a former chief justice from its courtroom who staunchly defended slavery and owned slaves himself.
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NC Justices Won t Adopt Loss Of Chance Med Mal Doctrine
Law360 (December 18, 2020, 11:07 PM EST) The North Carolina Supreme Court on Friday refused to adopt the loss of chance doctrine for medical malpractice cases in a suit accusing a doctor of failing to timely diagnose a woman s stroke and depriving her of the chance of a better medical outcome.
In a 6-1 ruling, the state s highest court affirmed summary judgment in favor of Dr. James Howard Hermann in a suit accusing the emergency medicine physician of failing to timely administer medication to patient Anita Kathleen Parkes, who exhibited signs of a stroke in 2014.