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Acc Esq	Jun 18 2008, 11:28 AM
Posts: 287 Group: Tier1 Member #323 Joined: May 6, 2008	Tony Soprano Jun 18 2008, 01:32 AM . Winston-Salem City Manager Lee Garrity ordered a similar shuffle in his city's organization last year in response to the findings of a report on the Winston-Salem Police Department's botched handling of the Darryl Hunt/Deborah Sykes murder case. Hunt spent almost 20 years in state prison after being falsely accused and eventually convicted of raping and killing Sykes, a newspaper copy editor. Eventually, DNA tests exonerated him and pointed to the guilt of another man. Winston-Salem officials have essentially conceded that a detective's inexperience and the poor supervision he received from his bosses contributed to Hunt's conviction. The supervisory reforms Garrity ordered last year included the reassignment of the Winston-Salem police force's lawyers, a move he said on Tuesday helped eliminate any "conflict about who their client is." This raises a few unanswered questions I have always had. I knew one of the lawyers who defended the City of Winston Salem and the Police Deptin the civil suit that supposedly led to the reforms. All these reforms were based on a summary judgment entered by the trial court. What perplexes me, however, is that it is my understanding that the summary judgment was subsequently overturned on appeal and the full trial resulted in a finding of no liability. That would be another reason why W-S is not comparable to the Durham reorganization.
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