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Some cops are too untrustworthy to testify. But local prosecutors won't reveal who they are


Some cops are too untrustworthy to testify. But local prosecutors won’t reveal who they are
Nick Ochsner
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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 arre ....

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Feds, state double down on secrecy of data on in-custody deaths


Feds, state double down on secrecy of data on in-custody deaths
Breaking down CMPD s release of body cam video in death of Harold Easter
By Nick Ochsner | April 22, 2021 at 10:55 AM EDT - Updated April 22 at 10:55 AM
As communities across the nation continue to grapple with high-profile police killings, North Carolina officials have again refused to release information on the deaths of people who died in custody, citing guidance from the U.S. Department of Justice.
The congressman who wrote the law requiring states to collect that information says both North Carolina and the U.S. DOJ are getting it wrong. ....

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North Carolina, DOJ Double Down On Secrecy Of Deaths In-Custody Data


Jason deBruyn
Specifically,
Madan wrote, the law “would forbid the North Carolina Department of Public Safety” from revealing information from the collected forms.
U.S. DOJ cited that same statute
in its denial last week of a federal Freedom of Information Act request from the Watchdog Reporting Network for the same data.
And in an email this week, the Governor’s Crime Commission, the North Carolina agency responsible for collecting data under the federal law, again said it was prohibited from releasing its own version of the information – regardless of format.
“Information regarding deaths in custody of local law enforcement is not collected or maintained by GCC independently of the DCR-1A or BJA spreadsheets,” commission spokesperson Margaret Ekam said in an email. “Therefore, we do not have any public documents responsive to your request.” ....

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