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Industrial Commission Policy Update on In-Person Hearings, Mediations, and Other Procedural Directives.The North Carolina Industrial Commission has adopted an Emergency Rule that in turn allows the Industrial Commission to implement Emergency Orders and Directives of the Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court. In short, the Industrial Commission wants its operating structure to be in sync with, and operate consistently with, the civil system when it comes to holding hearings, mediations and other procedural directives from the Chief Justice. As of January 14, 2021, and consistent with the January 14, 2021 Order of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina, all Industrial Commission mediations are to be conducted remotely, unless all parties and persons required to attend the mediation, including the mediator, agree to conduct the mediation in-person, or unless the Industrial Commission orders
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) The hiring of a new top administrator of North Carolina's court system is one of several significant personnel changes in a shake-up atop the state Judicial Branch since Chief.
Man wrongfully convicted in Bladen Co. double murder passes away
Joseph Sledge had settled with state agencies for additional $2.9 million last year
Man wrongfully convicted in Bladen Co. double murder passes away By Ann McAdams | January 11, 2021 at 1:46 PM EST - Updated January 11 at 5:29 PM
WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - Joseph Sledge, the man who spent 37 years in prison for a double murder in Bladen County he did not commit, has passed away. His death on Dec. 1 comes just five years after he finally won his freedom from prison.
Shortly before his death, Sledge settled out of court in his case against two state agencies whose shortcomings kept him in prison for more than a decade after evidence was available to prove his innocence. WECT has just learned that in March 2020, Sledge settled with the Administrative Office of the Courts and the Columbus County Clerk of Court’s Office for $2 million. In August 2020, he settled with the State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) for $90
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Gov. Cooper issues pardons of innocence to 5 inmates
RALEIGH (AP) North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper announced Thursday the pardons of five men convicted of crimes he believes they did not commit.
Among the prisoners is Ronnie Long, who spent 44 years in prison for a rape he says he did not commit. Long was freed in August. Cooper’s actions allow him and four other ex-convicts to apply for compensation of $50,000 a year up to $750,000 for their wrongful felony convictions.
“We must continue to work to reform our justice system and acknowledge when people have been wrongly convicted,” Cooper said in a statement. “I have carefully reviewed the facts in each of these cases and, while I cannot give these men back the time they served, I am granting them Pardons of Innocence in the hope that they might be better able to move forward in their lives.”