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Advocate asks Carteret County commissioners to use budget oversight to investigate alleged wrongful convictions
Summary
Shelley Phillips, a representative of United Together Services and a wrongful-conviction survivor, urged commissioners to use their funding and oversight authority over the sheriff's department to investigate alleged constitutional violations in county prosecutions, citing a petition and a specific case she called concerning.
Shelley Phillips, identifying herself as an advocate with United Together Services and a wrongful-conviction survivor, urged the Carteret County Board of Commissioners on June 16 to examine local criminal-justice practices and to use the board’s budgetary oversight of the sheriff’s office to demand answers.
Phillips told commissioners her organization’s review of cases in the county began with one file she described as alarming and expanded after an online petition gathered “over 500 names in less than 12 hours.” She…
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