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Superior Court Judge Robert C. Ervin of Morganton is presiding over the hearing based on a complaint filed with the clerk of Superior Court in February that Newman had committed acts of misconduct that brought his office into disrepute. Under the state law governing the removal of a D.A., evidence must show by clear and convincing that the elected prosecutor engaged in willful misconduct. An independent counsel Erwin appointed said that the two days of testimony and evidence had proved that; Newman s defense said the case had fallen short. No doubt we’ve proved (the case) based on agreed facts, we proved it through our witnesses and we ve proved it through their witnesses, Isaac N. Ike Northrup Jr. told Judge Ervin. ....
Valerie Owenby, a former Hendersonville resident who claims she was raped as a child, accused DA Greg Newman in his removal hearing of letting the accused rapist go free. ....
Henderson County (Apr 13, 2021) - A parade of witnesses attested to the character and integrity of District Attorney Greg Newman during the second day of a hearing to determine whether the prosecutor remains in office. ....
Superior Court Judge Robert C. Ervin convened a hearing on the removal of Newman on Monday morning. James P. Cooney III, the independent counsel, said in opening arguments that ample grounds exist to warrant the removal of the district attorney. He cited the three pillars of the case against the elected prosecutor for Henderson, Polk and Transylvania counties: A plea deal Newman made that allowed a defendant charged with five child sexual abuse felonies to plead guilty to one misdemeanor in a brief proceeding that the victim was not made aware of. The successful charge of vindictive prosecution by a defendant jailed for eight and a half years, a case currently on appeal before the state Supreme Court. ....
Warning: Story contains descriptions of sexual violence. Grace Pryor thinks back with remarkable clarity to that murky, nightmarish night six years ago, when she was stumbling back to her dorm room at Brevard College. Pryor, now 26 and an aspiring doctor of audiology, knew she’d had too much Bacardi to be driving home in the early morning of April 12, 2015. But she was alert enough to remember the alleged rape by two basketball players she called friends. In addition to that trauma were the stinging words of District Attorney Greg Newman, whose job Pryor thought was to uphold justice. “He told me five different ways it was my fault. The one that resonates most is he said it was because I was wearing a crop top and leggings. It was pretty horrifying,” Pryor said. ....