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Um...no police report means the students were likely white.

Commented: Thursday, June 6th, 2024 @ 2:32 pm By: Big Bob

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1/4 of WHS’s graduating class wont walk across this stage this week aftr officials banned them from graduation ovr participatin n a "SeniorPrank" May29.

Puishment is 47 seniors getting their highschool diplomas in mail instead on th stage. Beaufort Co School reps declined an interview but told us in email th prank damaged school property.They sd they are still calculating the cost of th damage.

School officials sd they witnessed flipped cafeteria tables. Toilet paper thrown in cafeteria, writing on walls,& eggs were thrown on trophies causin damage 2awards students worked hard 2achieve. Students entered building w a key.

They decided not 2file a police report, but they did punish all who sd were involved.

We r still waitin 2hear back from BOE officials 2 learn:
How each student was involved.
The costs of damages.
Why decision made2 impose same punishment on all students.
Were student roles n prank considered?
What were factors leadin 2decision.
R appeals permitted?

Commented: Thursday, June 6th, 2024 @ 12:34 pm By: Washingtonian

Sorry, bud, if a white billionaire cant get a fair trial , none of us can. Nothing but sour grapes

Commented: Thursday, June 6th, 2024 @ 11:56 am By: Big Bob

The liberal MSM media are notorious liars on immigration issues. Biden has done everything he could to let these freeloaders into our country, starting with halting construction of the border wall. This executive order is just the latest lie on this issue from the dishonest MSM media. It just continues Biden's [open borders policies with a little insignificant window dressing.

Commented: Thursday, June 6th, 2024 @ 10:46 am By: borderhawk

No, Bob, just some detail to explain what the law actually says and to refute your profoundly ignorant false statement about the law.

Commented: Thursday, June 6th, 2024 @ 10:02 am By: Steven P. Rader

Just offing some constructive criticism in a nonjudgemental post. Take it or leave it.

Commented: Thursday, June 6th, 2024 @ 9:40 am By: Big Bob

The Fani Willis hearing is another stinky situation with a political contributor judge. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee, who presides over the Trump case, and his wife are both political campaign contributors to DA Fani Willis. While that raises some questions about his fairness and objectivity in the overall Trump case, it was a blatant conflict of interest for him to be ruling on the motion to remove Willis. Willis at the time was engaged in a serious primary challenge from a fellow Democrat, and McAfee's failure to remove her probably saved her bacon in that primary.

I have not read if Georgia has a specific ethics rule against political contributions by judges as New York, the federal system, North Carolina and most states do. But even if technically legal, which the contribution may or may not have been, it clearly created a huge conflict of interest for him to be ruling on a politically critical motion to the recipient of his campaign contribution. This is yet another clearly crooked Democrat judge.

A good example of how being poltiical contributors corrupts judges is to look at the Colorado Supreme Court trying to take Trump off of the election ballot, which was later unanimously reversed by the US Surpeme Court. The all-Democrat Colorado Supreme court split 4 to 3 to remove Trump. The four who voted to remove Trump were all Democrat campaign contribotors, while the three who opposed that did not make political contributions to anyone. Colorado is in the minority where ethics rules do not restrict judges making political contributions, although from that ruling, clearly they should.

Commented: Thursday, June 6th, 2024 @ 9:16 am By: Conservative Voter

Yes, Bp might be a central office staffer. One of my associates think it is more likely one of those Repub exec. committee officers with severe HDS. Whatever, it is pathetic excuse for rational argument.

While I think JM made a good point, Hood's complaint about how decisions are made in this county is valid also. His point is valid enough that I consider it to be a county wide problem that does not need to be swept under the rug under the guise of hateful Hood bashing. We should appreciate public servants that have the backbone to do their job. Bottom line: More effort was put into getting lottery money to spend then making a plan for BCSs.

Commented: Thursday, June 6th, 2024 @ 6:32 am By: Van Zant

Bib Bob, The truth cuts to deep for some people to handle.

Commented: Wednesday, June 5th, 2024 @ 5:01 pm By: Hood Richardson

As a lawyer, let me correct Bob's gross misunderstanding of the law. In North Carolina, as in New York, if there are factors where a party cannot get a fair trial in the jurisdiction where charges are pending due to a tainted jury pool, there are two remedies. One is a change of venue, where the entire trial is moved to another jurisdiction with a fairer jury pool. The other is a special venire, where the trial itself is not moved, but jurors are brought in from another jurisdiction where there is a fairer jury pool.

Three times while I was actively practicing law I was involved in cases where the venue was changed. One was a capital murder case in Martin County. The trial judge initially denied our motion to change venue, but after a week of trying to seat a jury, he finally understood the issues we had raised in our motion, took up our motion again and changed venue to Pitt County. Another was a drug smuggling case in Hyde County, where a Wilmington attorney for a different defendant got in the case early and moved for a change of venue and it was moved to Martin County. When other defendants got local attorneys, we all considered that a very bad move, and we all moved to have venue returned to Hyde County, which the court did. The third was a civil case originally filed in Duplin County, on which venue was changed on my motion to Beaufort County.

My late law partner John Wilkinson was hired by the victim's family as a private prosecutor in the notorious Joan Little murder case here in Beaufort County. As private prosecutor, he could only consult and advise the District Attorney's office. In that case, venue was changed on the defendant's motion to Wake County. That was very adverse to the prosecution, but our local Democrat DA, William Griffin went along with it for political reasons. The laws on change of venue required the case be sent to either another county in the same judicial district or a district that bordered our district. Wake County did not qualify as a county to which venue should have been changed.

Probably the most famous trial that ever happened in Beaufort County, the George Washington Carawan murder case involved a crime that actually happened in Hyde County. The venue was changed to Beaufort County because of fears he could not get a fair trial in Hyde where the murder happened.

I do not think I have ever seen a case where justice cried out for a change of venue or special venire more than the Manhattan case against Trump.

Commented: Wednesday, June 5th, 2024 @ 2:55 pm By: Steven P. Rader

Commit a crime in BC, you get a BC jury. Commit a crime in NY, get a NY jury. WTF. Its always been this way.

Commented: Wednesday, June 5th, 2024 @ 2:12 pm By: Big Bob