Opponents of the measure said it undercuts the bipartisan Second Chance Act of 2019, which guaranteed automatic expunctions to people who have not guilty verdicts or who have their cases dismissed by a district attorney.
North Carolina lawmakers can sell or destroy public records, but don’t have to release them.
Bill headed to Governor’s desk calls for 16 and 17 year-olds to be tried as adults for crimes including murder, robbery and assaults with firearms.
Prosecutors say details in autopsy reports could sway potential jurors if released to the public.
Over the past 17 years — and all but seven years since 1984 — South Carolina has had a Black judge on its highest court.
Daniel Perry shot and killed Garrett Foster during a protest in downtown Austin in July 2020. Perry was convicted and sentenced to 25 years in prison in May 2023, prompting immediate calls for a pardon from conservative figures.
‘The only person that was better off today than they were four years ago is an illegal alien,’ Republican candidate Hung Cao, a 25-year Navy veteran who served in combat zones, said.
Democratic Attorney General Josh Stein, an abortion rights supporter now running for Governor, didn’t defend the restrictions in court because he already contended they were preempted by the FDA’s decisions.
Tad Berman is a founding coalition member of Virginians Against Neighborhood Slot Machines, which was initially led by two men convicted on charges related to child pornography.
