Governor Roy Cooper announced this week that he will appoint North Carolina Supreme Court Associate Justice Cheri Beasley to replace Mark Martin as Chief Justice when he steps down from the bench later this month. She will be the first black woman to serve as Chief Justice in North Carolina. Beasley has been on the Supreme Court since 2012, and prior to joining the court she served on the North Carolina Court of Appeals and as a District Court Judge in Cumberland County. Cooper will appoint another person to Beasley’s current seat at some point in the future. Keep reading for more news. Newby Criticizes Cooper. Senior Associate Justice Paul Newby said on Twitter that Cooper’s decision to not appoint him as Chief Justice was a partisan choice that erodes public trust and confidence in a fair judiciary. In the past, the court’s Senior Associate Justice usually has been appointed to fill Chief Justice vacancies, though Governor Jim Martin broke with that tradition in 1986 when he appointed Associate Justice Rhoda Billings as Chief Justice. Newby has said that he will run for Chief Justice in 2020. FBI Most Wanted. As WRAL reports, a man on the FBI Most Wanted List was shot and killed by an FBI agent this week at a Woodspring Suites hotel in Apex, following an Apex police officer’s investigation of a suspicious car in the hotel parking lot. Greg Alyn Carlson was on the list because he was suspected of multiple armed sexual assaults in California. [...]
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