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Posted on 12/12/2006 2:05:44 PM PST by Howlin
WILMINGTON, N.C. -- A day after authorities announced that a former New Hanover County deputy had been indicted in the shooting death of a Durham teen during a raid on a Wilmington home, members of the grand jury now say the indictment was a mistake.
The grand jury never intended to charge Cpl. Christopher Long with second-degree murder, but the foreman checked the wrong box on the indictment, authorities said Tuesday.
Peyton Strickland, 18, a Cape Fear Community College student from Durham, was shot to death Dec. 1 at his Wilmington home by deputies serving arrest and search warrants. Strickland and two friends were charged with assaulting a University of North Carolina at Wilmington student last month and stealing two PlayStation 3 consoles from him.
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Ping!!!
--oops--what do we do now?
Bread-king? *\;-)
Famous last words in NC legal system: "Oops!"
I think I heard WRAL say that they withdrew the indictment?
Can that be true? I am probably wrong about that.
He must be a Dem voter.
Dang!
Rush to post syndrome!
Thanks be to God for the reprieve for the good guys, but 24 hours of needless hell for the Deputy. "Oops" doesn't cut it.
He meant to check the Pat Buchanan box, right?
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Better to hear "Oops!" from them than from a doctor.
"Knife...scalpel....forceps....Oops!"
No one is above the law, no one.
Eyewitness News(12/12/06 -- WILMINGTON) - New details in the shooting death of a Durham college student living in Wilmington. Corporal Christopher Long, the Sheriff's Deputy who fired the shots that killed 18-year-old Peyton Strickland while serving a warrant December 1, is not facing murder charges after all.
When the jury foreman saw the news that Corporal Long was facing murder charges, and realized his mistake, he contacted authorities.
Long, 34, was among several deputies placed on administrative leave last week after the fatal shooting Strickland.
Officials charged Strickland and two other men with stealing two Playstation 3 game consoles from another UNC Wilmington student.
According to search warrants, authorities believed they would be at high risk when entering the home because of pictures on the Internet that showed one of the suspects, Ryan Mills posing with guns. UNC Wilmington police said they had received information Mills was known to carry a weapon.
Cpl. Christopher Long was released from duty last week. Sgt. Greg Johnson and Detective Larry Robinson, remain on administrative leave and l have moved out of the county with their families because of threats.
it is called a "scrivner's error"
In the old english courts the scrivner is the man who would madly write the judges opinion as he recited it in open court.
Since he was writting with a quill, errors by the scrivner were common and corretions were accepted.
Thank you. I imagine all hell is going to break loose here.
My vet said she was taught in vet school: Never say, 'Oops!' Say, 'It's worse than I thought.'
Remind me never to get in trouble in North Carolina. Their legal system must be something amazingly inept.
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