Entries tagged with “Derrick Allen”
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,Mar 14, 2011
Judge Dismisses Capital Murder Charges After Finding State Report “Intentionally Misleading”
On March 10, a North Carolina superior court judge released his opinion throwing out murder charges against Derrick Michael Allen, who was accused in the 1998 death and sexual assault of a 2‑year-old girl. Judge Orlando Hudson dismissed the case after finding that a State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) report was prepared in an “inaccurate, incomplete and intentionally misleading manner.” Judge Hudson also found that an SBI agent (now suspended) and a former…