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Anna Mills Wagoner Elected As Superior Court Judge; Do-Nothing Former U.S. Attorney for NC
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Anna Mills Wagoner, the former U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of North Carolina, was elected as a Superior Court Judge for Rowan County, North Carolina on Tuesday.

She garnered 55% of the vote, defeating two other challengers. Marshall Bickett was appointed District Court judge in 2007 and elected in 2008. He has served 32 years in various positions in the court system in Rowan County. David Bingham is a Salisbury lawyer who opened his practice there in 1983.

Wagoner was U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of North Carolina but resigned in August to run for the judge's seat. The Salisbury resident is a former District Court judge in Rowan.

She is well-known for doing nothing about the attempted frame-up in the Duke lacrosse case. She sat on her hands while the constitutional rights of Duke students Evans, Seligmann and Finnerty were violated by former DA Mike Nifong, the Durham Police Department and Duke University. Rather than intervene, it has been reported that she helped block an inquiry by the U.S. Department of Justice into the case that was being pursued by current N.J. Gov. Chris Christie, who was then a U.S. Attorney in New Jersey.

For more information about Wagoner and the lacrosse frameup, see:

http://www.newsobserver.com/2007/10/31/79625/federal-help-sought-in-duke-case.html#storylink=misearch

http://www.wral.com/asset/news/news_briefs/2007/10/31/1988371/cooneyletter.swf

http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/gaynor/071102

http://liestoppers.blogspot.com/2007/11/disciple-of-nifong-method.html

Here is an excerpt from the October 10, 2007 letter by Reade Seligmann's attorney Jim Cooney requesting a U.S. DOJ investigation (which was later denied):

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I was concerned, further, that the United States Attorney in the Middle District of North-Carolina [Anna Mills Wagoner] might face a potential ethical issue in any investigation into the events unfolding in Durham. That is, it appeared to me that the United States Attorney for the Middle District could have a conflict in conducting an investigation into law enforcement authorities and prosecuting authorities with whom she is required to work and conduct investigations on a regular basis. Because Reade and his family lived in New Jersey, and because many of these acts involved the use of interstate communications which had a direct effect in New Jersey, Reade and his father met with the United States Attorney for New Jersey about these concerns. To put it simply, the victims of these potential criminal acts were in New Jersey and it appeared that the federal authorities in New Jersey would be capable of conducting the full, fair and open investigation necessary without any concern of addressing potential conflict of interest issues.

"In January, and for several weeks and months thereafter, Reade and his father met with Assistant United States Attorneys and provided the Motions, transcripts and other pleadings that were part of the public record. It is my clients' understanding that a meeting was scheduled between these assistants, representatives of the United States Attorney's Office in the Middle District of North Carolina, and members of the Attorney General's Office of North Carolina in early September. Apparently, after the federal prosecutors arrived in Raleigh, they were directed not to meet with members of the Attorney General's Office. Despite repeated inquiries by my clients, they are still unclear as to why these prosecutors — after having traveled to Raleigh — were denied permission to even meet with representatives of the Attorney General of North Carolina.


By failing to act in the Duke case, Ms. Wagoner took the easy way out-- not ruffling any feathers of her fellow prosecutors and judges and blocking a federal probe of the corrupt North Carolina justice system. Now that Ms. Wagoner is back on the North Carolina judicial bench in Rowan County, she can cavort with her fellow North Carolina judges at the country club, drinking mint juleps or whatever her favorite libation.

(JMOO)
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