Happy new year! It’s time for the first news roundup of 2023, but I’ll start with one item that dates back to 2022. The Associated Press reports here that “Adnan Syed, who was released from a Maryland prison this year after his case was the focus of the true-crime podcast ‘Serial,’ has been hired by Georgetown University as a program associate for the university’s Prisons and Justice Initiative.” Apparently he will support a class in which “students reinvestigate decades-old wrongful convictions, create short documentaries about the cases and work to help bring innocent people home from prison.” I guess he might know something about that. Keep reading for more news. Sheriff resigns, again. WRAL reports that Columbus County Sheriff Jody Greene has resigned. Again. Readers may recall that Sheriff Greene resigned last year after District Attorney Jon David filed a petition to remove him, based in part on a recording in which the sheriff complained about “Black bastards” and threatened to fire every Black person in his office. Nonetheless, Sheriff Greene remained on the ballot for the election last November, and was elected by the people of Columbus County. Immediately after he was sworn in, District Attorney David filed a new petition to remove him and to bar him permanently from holding office. At a scheduled hearing on the petition, Sheriff Greene resigned, mooting the removal petition though not the request to bar him from holding the office in the future – a request that will be decided later. Criminal investigations [...]
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