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Russell William Tucker, a death-row inmate who alleges Forsyth County prosecutors illegally used a “cheat sheet” to strike all five Black potential jurors from his 1996 trial, is taking his case to the U.S. Supreme Court.  […]

Michael Hewlett is a courts and law reporter for The Assembly. He was previously a legal affairs reporter at the Winston-Salem Journal and has won two Henry Lee Weathers Freedom of Information Awards.

Anne Blythe, a former reporter for The News & Observer, has reported on courts, criminal justice, and an array of topics in North Carolina for more than three decades.