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Supreme Court: NC Railroad Isn t Subject to Open Records Law

First Racial Justice Act claim since landmark 2020 ruling is heard in state court

Judge Wayland J. Sermons, Jr. heard Hasson Bacote’s Racial Justice Act claim in Wake County Superior Court on May 20, 2021. The first case re-evaluating the role of racial bias in the death penalty began last week in Wake County, the result of a landmark 2020 state Supreme Court decision. Hasson Bacote was convicted of murdering Anthony Surles, an 18-year-old high schooler in Johnston County in 2007, WRAL reported. A jury sentenced Bacote to death in 2009. That same year, the General Assembly passed the Racial Justice Act, which then-Gov. Bev Perdue signed into law. The RJA allowed individuals on death row to seek sentences of life without parole if they could prove racial bias or discrimination was a significant factor in the decision to seek or impose the death penalty in their case.

Supreme Court weighs Schalow hearing in DA Greg Newman removal

As then-District Attorney Greg Newman was being removed from office, one of the cases discussed at length during his hearing was before the state Supreme Court. No decision was made as the state argued that Newman was simply doing his job in trying to hold a man accountable for his actions, and the defense said that the state already tried the defendant and is now trying to make up for a mistake in litigation.  Assistant Attorney General Joseph Hyde, representing the state, argued that Newman s actions were proper in his prosecution of Leonard Schalow on charges related to the near-fatal beating of his wife in 2014. 

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