That’s the standard that must be met by the prosecution’s evidence to convict in a criminal trial, regardless of how horrendous the crime or suspected guilt of the accused. Just ask some guy named O.J. Or maybe Demeatrius Montgomery, currently on trial for the brutal slayings of police officers Jeff Shelton and Sean Clark. The […]
Let’s see. Mayor Anthony Foxx is tapped to chair the new Small Business Task Force of the U.S. Conference of Mayors and – presto! – we’re hit with a nicely dovetailed op-ed piece of pure hyperbole from U.S. Labor Secretary Hilda Solis in the uptown paper of record. Coincidence, I’m sure. Or maybe it has […]
This time it’s police officer Marvin Bell, who has been charged with DWI, the latest in a string of officer-related incidents and arrests under the command of Chief Rodney Monroe. Meanwhile, an independent audit team led by former Superior Court Judge Shirley Fulton, and comprised of retired internal affairs supervisors and investigators, will begin examining about […]
Gotta love this sub-hed from the uptown paper of record’s story on the city’s looming bond referendum: Foxx: Charlotte leaders will emphasize taxes won’t rise to repay $204 million Of course taxes won’t rise to repay bonds, just like they never rise to repay enormous debt on any other boondoggle the uptown lunch bunch concocts. […]
And possibly permanently disconnected; Judge Forrest Bridges on Friday morning abruptly adjourned the trial of accused cop killer Demeatrius Montgomery, before it even had a chance to get started. This from News 14: After meeting with both the prosecution and defense before court, Judge Bridges ruled that both sides needed more time to look into “certain […]
It’s a classic criminal defense attorney strategy, typically employed when the evidence of a case is stacked against your client and particularly potent if even a smattering of that evidence carries the slightest taint. Hence we have accused cop killer Demeatrius Montgomery playing the SODDI card: Some Other Dude Did It. In this case, one […]
Many fine officers, tainted by the inept and/or alleged illegal actions of a few? or is it something more pervasive that goes to a failure of leadership, a command either willing to turn a blind eye toward gross misconduct or incompetence within the department or unable to change a culture that has led to a […]
And smiling the whole way, with officials from the NASCAR Hall of Fame claiming no reasons for concern despite attendance numbers that have failed to keep pace with even lowered expectations. HOF officials had originally ballyhooed a projected 800,000 visitors for the hall’s first year, which was subsequently trimmed to 575K; yet trends show the […]
N.C. Department of Transportation officials have announced that a widening of the south Charlotte parking lot known as I-485, from Johnston Road to South Boulevard, is slated to begin in 2014, a year ahead of the state’s current schedule. That should come as giddy news, except for the inconvenient fact that the widening project was […]
In this case the price tag sits at upwards of $9 million, part and parcel of Charlotte’s lunatic obsession to include an affordable housing component in the redevelopment of NoDa’s Mecklenburg Mills. It started back in the early 1990s, when the city approved a $1 million loan to a developer to purchase and rehabilitate the […]
