Judge Orders GOP District Attorney Removed for Making 'False Representations' After Crime Victims
Source: Law & Crime
Said He Ignored Their Cases
An elected district attorney was ousted by a judge in North Carolina on Tuesday for making “false representations” to the court in a probe which aimed to determine whether he refused to prosecute several crimes, including an alleged child sex assault. Superior Court Judge Robert C. Ervin permanently removed GOP District Attorney Greg Newman, who had previously overseen criminal cases in three Tarheel State counties since being appointed to serve in 2013: Henderson, Transylvania and Polk.
“It is paramount that the office of district attorney be held in a manner that exemplifies fairness and equal justice under the law,” Judge Ervin wrote in an April 27 order. “Newman, as district attorney, has on four separate occasions made false representations to the trial court or the State Bar. Sheriff [Lowell] Griffin admitted that if a law enforcement officer lied to the court, his career would be over. It is difficult to see why Newman, pursuant to N.C. Gen. Stat. 7A-66 and the facts of this case, should be held to a lower standard.”
“Conduct prejudicial to the administration of justice,” Ervin continued, includes “conduct which a judge undertakes in good faith but which nevertheless would appear to an objective observer to be not only unjudicial conduct but conduct prejudicial to public esteem for the judicial office.”
The decision to depose Newman was prompted by a grassroots coalition of victims of alleged crimes and their families who say the now-former DA mishandled their cases and failed to prosecute numerous alleged offenders.
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