Local law enforcement agencies, state lawmakers, the Department of Justice, and State Crime Lab have been focused on the backlog that dates back to when Gov. Roy Cooper was attorney general for 16 years. Now, 11,841 kits have been tested leading to DNA matches and more than 100 arrests.
Wake County District Attorney Lorrin Freeman told WRAL News that her office was handling at least 12 homicide cases with a suspect under 18 in the span of a year and a half.
A High Point woman used court filings this week to defend her federal lawsuit challenging her arrest during a 2020 protest of Gov. Roy Cooper’s COVID-related shutdown orders. Monica Ussery's lawyers filed three separate documents Wednesday in US District Court. Ussery responded to multiple motions to dismiss her case.