CNN reports here that a “West Virginia woman has awoken from a two-year coma and identified her brother as her attacker.” Wanda Palmer was brutally assaulted in 2020, with first responders initially believing that she was dead. She wasn’t, though she was comatose. She began to emerge from the coma last month, and now is apparently coherent though unable to hold full-length conversations. After naming her brother Daniel as her assailant, she was asked why he attacked her. She reportedly responded “because he’s mean.” Daniel Palmer has been arrested for attempted murder. A criminal defense lawyer considers how an identification like this may play in court here on Fox News. Keep reading for more news. Former DA in trouble again. Wallace Bradsher, the former District Attorney in Caswell and Person Counties, was convicted in 2018 of felony charges arising out of an agreement with another prosecutor to hire one another’s wives for no-show jobs. Bradsher is back in the news as WRAL reports that a grand jury has indicted him for “for accepting a bribe and obstruction of justice related to a 2015 case when he was District Attorney. Search warrants from the SBI . . . show Bettie Yarboro-Jackson paid Bradsher with some of her lottery winnings to get drug charges dropped against her son.” Member of North Carolina’s Congressional delegation arrested at the Supreme Court. WRAL has this story about the arrest of Alma Adams, a United States Representative from the Charlotte area. Adams was arrested Tuesday at an [...]
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