DA will review case of ex-boss, judge

Charlotte.com/The Charlotte Observer ^ | February 2, 2006 | Emily S. Achenbaum

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Decision criticized as conflict of interest by law professor at UNC. . . .Union County District Attorney Michael Parker will review allegations of felonious conduct by his former boss and a sitting judge, and then decide "what further action, if any, is appropriate."

It's not clear if that means Parker will ultimately decide whether to press changes against former Union County District Attorney Ken Honeycutt and District Judge Scott Brewer. Parker said he would not comment beyond the news release issued Wednesday. He said he will spend at least the next 45 days "sorting, cataloging and indexing more than 2,000 documents" about the N.C. State Bar's allegations against the two former prosecutors.

Parker's announcement on his role in the closely watched case drew immediate criticism. UNC Chapel Hill law professor Richard Rosen said Parker's links to Honeycutt and Brewer are an obvious conflict of interest. He said Parker should have asked the N.C. Attorney General's Office, if not federal investigators, to take the case. "He (Parker) knows the people involved. It's a charge of corruption in that office. I don't see any way ethically that the same office can handle this," said Rosen, a criminal-law expert.

Parker would not answer questions about possible conflict of interest.

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Sending the case to Honeycutt's protege and Brewer's colleague, Michael Parker, who was coronated by the Union County Bar, NC Governor (and former NC Attorney General) Mike Easley, and NC Attorney General Roy Cooper WITHOUT an election less than two years into Honeycutt's "last" D.A. term when Honeycutt "retired" in anticipation of the charges being brought against was little more than a disingenuous punt by the NC Bar. After all, the NC Bar is fully aware that Parker was on the Honeycutt D.A. team when the death penalty case misdeeds were done.

The NC Bar is seriously conflicted with itself over the matter of Ken Honeycutt, past president of the North Carolina Conference of District Attorneys, and Scott Brewer, about whom it can be proven that the NC Bar has given passes to on other misconduct matters, is attempting to somehow avoid corruption charges in its own ranks by its increasingly bizarre actions in the Honeycutt & Brewer matter. If justice is ever actually done in this case, corrupt activity in the North Carolina legal industry will unravel all the way to the governor's and state attorney general's offices.

Yeah, like the NC Bar (which supposedly exists on behalf of the citizenry), is actually interested in airing-out its own dirty laundry, and exposing the true nature of the industry it supports (in reality) to "We, the People." ;^)

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Well. This should be interesting.

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All the major players in this drama (and numerous of their connected friends), are substantive members of the North Carolina Democratic Party machine -- The stranglehold that the Dems have so long had in N.C. appears to have been primarily through the court system/legal industry all along. . . .

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"The NC Bar is seriously conflicted with itself over the matter of Ken Honeycutt, past president of the North Carolina Conference of District Attorneys, and Scott Brewer, about whom it can be proven that the NC Bar has given passes to on other misconduct matters, is attempting to somehow avoid corruption charges in its own ranks by its increasingly bizarre actions in the Honeycutt & Brewer matter. If justice is ever actually done in this case, corrupt activity in the North Carolina legal industry will unravel all the way to the governor's and state attorney general's offices.

Yeah, like the NC Bar (which supposedly exists on behalf of the citizenry), is actually interested in airing-out its own dirty laundry, and exposing the true nature of the industry it supports (in reality) to "We, the People." ;^)"

And a man has been on death row to cover all this up? Something seems seriously wrong with the legal system in UNION COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA...

Now the question is, "Does anyone have the courage to fix it?"

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