by Elizabeth Simpson | Mar 29, 2022 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News, Policing
Valarie Smith Ragland just wants to see the footage of her son dying. Makari J Smith, of Oxford, NC, was fatally shot on February 9, 2022, at the age of 23, by the Granville County Sheriff’s Office while in the midst of a probable psychotic...
by Elizabeth Simpson | Mar 8, 2022 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News, Policing
Last month, Emancipate NC attorneys Ian Mance and Elizabeth Simpson, joined with co-counsel Emily Gladden and Abe Rubert-Schewel from the law firm of Tin Fulton Walker & Owen and Michael Littlejohn from Littlejohn Law, to sue the Raleigh Police Department on...
by Elizabeth Simpson | Mar 8, 2022 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News, Justice League, Mass Incarceration, Uncategorized
Phillip Smith, a friend of Emancipate NC, is the Editor of Nash News, a publication created and produced entirely by Nash Correctional Residents at the Correction Enterprises Print Plant. The last issue featured a story about Emancipate NC, including profiles of...
by Elizabeth Simpson | Feb 17, 2022 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News, Ending the Death Penalty, Mass Incarceration
One of Emancipate NC’s three primary strategies is our work to shift the public narrative on mass incarceration. Our mission statement reads: “Through community education, narrative shift, and litigation, Emancipate NC supports North Carolina’s people as they free...
by Elizabeth Simpson | Feb 17, 2022 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News, Policing
On February 10, Emancipate NC joined with El Pueblo, Respuesta Rapida de Durham, and NC SPAN to host a peaceful march in memory of Daniel Turcios, and to hold police accountable for his murder. The Indy Week covered...
by Elizabeth Simpson | Feb 17, 2022 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News, Ending the Death Penalty
Emancipate NC attorney Ian Mance published a piece in the Campbell Law Review about North Carolina prosecutors’ use of peremptory challenges to secure an all-white jury in a capital trial involving a Black defendant. Prosecutors used a “cheat...
