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43-1 IN WRAL SURVEY SUPPORT MEDICAL MARIJUANA IN NC: Some viewers spoke from personal experience with medical marijuana. I support medical cannabis because I m a veteran of the Iraq war. And I was diagnosed with PTSD after I got out of military, said Thomas Baker in Wake County. I was living in California at the time, and was able to access medical cannabis, and it truly helped save my life. Others said it could help them with their current medical conditions. I hope the North Carolina General Assembly will approve medical marijuana for those of us that deal with chronic back pain due to failed back surgeries, failed nerve issues, multiple sclerosis, war victims, and so on, said Johnston County s Tanya Clemmons Cook We deserve a break. Some said it could be a pain-management alternative to opioids, without the risk of overdose those drugs continue to pose.
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Some cops are too untrustworthy to testify. But local prosecutors won’t reveal who they are Nick Ochsner © Provided by WBTV Charlotte 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 arrests or be involved