More Charges Against North Carolina Death Penalty Defense Attorney

The North Carolina State Bar has filed a new complaint against the death penalty defense attorney previously charged with keeping a water bottle without the permission of suspect’s sister to test for exculpatory DNA. 

The attorney is now alleged to have given an uncertified transcript of an innocence hearing to a reporter for The News and Observer.

A staff member of The North Carolina Center on Actual Innocence conducted an informal inquiry into how the reporter had published an article that relied on the uncertified transcript.

The gravamen of the complaint is that the attorney provided false and misleading responses to the staff member.

The complaint involves the representation of the same defendant as in the water bottle case. (Mike Frisch)