Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Billy's bad expereince with the local criminal justice system

Billy says he was assaulted at work last year. The case nearly falls through the cracks, he says -- a magistrate alters his complaint, witnesses do not get subpoenaed, the Guilford County District Attorney does not communicate with him until he's in court and he has to take the on the job of moving paperwork on the DA's behalf.

This is completely contrary to the way things have gone thus far for me with the case of my stolen lawnmower where a patrol officer gets a timely report, a detective investigates, lawnmower is recovered, DA takes the case to a grand jury, gets an indictment and keeps me informed by mail.

How do these cases get handled so differently?

2 comments:

  1. "How do these cases get handled so differently?"

    Great question, Roch. Thanks for asking it. Now if someone would only answer it.

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  2. In my experince,people at the Guilford County DA's office and District 18 Judicial System do not follow procedure or even the law!

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