Agents' Secrets: The Fallout
Settlement means another $1.475 million for Floyd Brown
Anson County and its insurers reached a $1.475 million settlement with Floyd Brown, the second settlement reached with the mentally disabled man jailed in a psychiatric hospital for 14 years based on an implausible confession. Brown has been compensated a total of $9.325 million from Anson County...
Agents' Secrets: The Fallout
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LOCAL/STATE
SBI agent Mark Isley slow to report tips on cop conspiracy
It took SBI agent Mark Isley nearly two years to file reports of allegations of misconduct against two sheriff’s deputies who later went to federal prison. One of them was his close friend.
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CRIME
NC crime lab wins international seal of approval
Forensic Quality Services, a Florida-based organization that audits and inspects crime labs, told the State Bureau of Investigation this week that the lab had met the standards required by the highest global standard for forensic science laboratories.
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LOCAL/STATE
Court hearing on Mike Peterson focuses on discredited SBI agent
Attorneys from the NC attorney general’s office argue that a 2003 murder conviction should be reinstated against Michael Peterson. The Durham novelist’s attorneys argue his trial was flawed by the testimony of an SBI agent who has since been discredited.
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AGENTS' SECRETS
Judge order says Michael Peterson’s rights violated by SBI agent
The conviction in 2003 of Durham novelist Michael Peterson was obtained with “materially misleading” and “deliberately false” testimony from a State Bureau of Investigation agent who was a crucial witness about blood evidence in the murder case that spawned TV movies, ...
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AGENTS' SECRETS
Ex-SBI agent Deaver's testimony could lead to reviews
Duane Deaver's work paved the path for Michael Peterson's new trial. His testimony also could force another look at the sentences of several other convicted murderers.
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DURHAM COUNTY
Michael Peterson denies guilt, tastes freedom
Michael Peterson sat in his lawyer's office Wednesday afternoon twisting his wedding ring and talking about the electronic anklet that has monitored his movements over the past week.
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AGENTS' SECRETS
Defense challenged Deaver at trial in 2003
Michael Peterson's hearing for a new trial this month was not the first time his defense team had challenged the credentials of former State Bureau of Investigation agent Duane Deaver.
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AGENTS' SECRETS
Peterson defense dissects Deaver's methods
The Michael Peterson hearing took on some trappings of a film festival Thursday, somehow appropriate for a criminal case that has spawned documentaries and a feature film.
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DURHAM COUNTY
SBI expert's partiality, methods questioned in Peterson hearing
To win a new trial, Durham novelist Michael Peterson and his lawyers are arguing that former SBI agent Duane Deaver tailored his expert witness testimony not to the facts or science of a case, but to what prosecutors wanted him to say.
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