The Orange County District Attorney cited the chaotic nature of the arrests and difficulties in identifying charging officers as reasons for dismissing charges against six UNC-Chapel Hill protesters involved in anti-Israel demonstrations.
Charges dismissed against six UNC-Chapel Hill anti- Israel demonstratorsThe district attorney said that, due to the volatility of the situation , there was insufficient evidence to bring some of the cases to trial, according to
“We realized that five of those six we simply didn’t have sufficient evidence to take them to trial,” said Orange County District Attorney Jeff Nieman. “That’s not necessarily because there sufficient facts to prove the crime , but it boils down to: we either couldn’t ascertain who the charging officer was in those individual cases, or if we could determine who it was, we couldn’t locate them.
“That might sound unusual, but this was an unusual case,” he added. “Thirty-nine cases, all arising from one or two days, lots of people being charged at the same time, there was a chaotic nature to it… and that’s nobody’s fault.” “There were a lot of people involved… a lot of law enforcement, a lot of suspects in the crimes being processed,” Nieman added. “That — combined with there were a lot of officers from outside agencies… outside the university, outside the county, outside the district — made for a confluence of circumstances that resulted in a few cases we couldn’t quite figure out did what to put up witnesses to make the cases.
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