AUGUSTA, Maine (WABI) - A work session was held Monday on a bill that would make Washington and Hancock county two different districts for those facing prosecution. Right now, there is just one ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Share SMITHFIELD, N.C. (AP) — Racial bias tainted the decision to strike Black people from the jury pool ...

S MITHFIELD, N.C. (AP) — Racial bias tainted the decision to strike Black people from the jury pool and to impose the death penalty in the 2009 trial of a Black man in North Carolina, a judge ...

News release from District Attorney ... the importance of prosecutorial accountability and ethical conduct. Buncombe County D.A. Todd Williams was the sole active North Carolina prosecutor to ...

In a 120-page order, Superior Court Judge Wayland Sermons also ruled that race was “a significant factor” in other death penalty cases brought by Greg Butler, the assistant district attorney who ...

Racial Bias Tainted Jury Selection and Death Sentence for a Black Man in North Carolina, Judge Says SMITHFIELD ... “glaring” patterns of bias in a prosecutorial district outside the capital.

Vice Dean of the Faculty of Law at Greenfield University College in Sunyani, Lawyer Samuel Mahmoud Fenbeti, has urged policymakers and stakeholders to completely detach prosecutorial powers from the ...