by Elizabeth Simpson | Nov 29, 2023 | Emancipate NC News, Policing, Raising the Juvenile Age
The Education Justice Taskforce, consisting of the Education Justice Alliance, Advancement Project, Emancipate NC, and Legal Aid of NC, has recently launched a new webpage for submitting complaints about misconduct by School Resource Officers (SROs) in North Carolina...
by operations | Sep 13, 2023 | Emancipate NC News, Raising the Juvenile Age
Children are children! They do not belong in adult court, facing trumped up felony charges. Yet the Gaston County DA continues to persecute Paden and La’Dainian Fuller, charging La’Dainian with attempted murder. Team Emancipate’s Dawn Blagrove and Kerwin Pittman...
by operations | Aug 2, 2023 | Emancipate NC News, Policing, Raising the Juvenile Age
In a cruel and inhumane overreach, District Attorney Travis Page of Gaston County charged a 15-year-old child with Attempted Murder for defending his twin brother from police violence. La’Dainian Fuller, who was only 15-years-old at the time of the incident, placed a...
by Elizabeth Simpson | Jun 29, 2022 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News, Justice League, Mass Incarceration, Raising the Juvenile Age
Legal Analysis by Maren Hurley Important takeaways: North Carolina’s constitution is more expansive than the federal constitution; juvenile offenders may not serve more than 40 years before parole eligibility; juvenile offenders sentenced to two or more...
by Elizabeth Simpson | Mar 29, 2022 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News, Raising the Juvenile Age
Last week, Emancipate NC joined with the Wilson County NAACP to host a forum on juvenile justice at the Wilson Community College. The guest speakers were Emancipate NC Executive Director Dawn Blagrove, Attorney LaToya Powell, the Deputy General Counsel of...
by Elizabeth Simpson | Dec 3, 2021 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News, Mass Incarceration, Raising the Juvenile Age
As previously reported, Executive Director Dawn Blagrove was invited to give oral argument in a Juvenile Life-without-Parole case at the North Carolina Supreme Court last month, after Emancipate NC submitted an amicus brief on behalf...
