A 2001 murder, committed in Asheboro, NC in Randolph County that could've only been described as a "butcher job," was determined by DA Garland Yate's Chief ADA, Andy Gregson, as a justifiable homicide, resulting from an act of self defense. The knife, alleged to have belonged to the victim, Daniel Brown, was described by Detective Scott Maness of the Asheboro PD as a pocket knife. The medical examiner's report identified a large knife. These facts were made known to Mark Brumley, a reporter for the Asheboro Courier Tribune in 2006, witnessed by the former Detective Gary Davis of the Randolph County Sheriff's Office. The medical examiner's report indicated Daniel Brown sustained 28 sharp force injuries. Various wounds, identified as non-fatal and rapidly fatal included one, described as large and gaping approximately 12" in length, wrapping around the left side of the chest from front to back with another, 4" in length that left the bowel exposed. One of three wounds, described as crescenteric, 2 1/2" in length, just above the right ear, resembling a "c," with a second, described as a 6" arrowhead shaped incised wound on the left side of the chest, with a third, described as an incised wound to the 1st and 2nd fingers on the left hand, exposing the bone on both fingers.

A gruesome murder, resulting in 28 wounds with two, identified as rapidly fatal, makes Chief ADA Gregson's determination of self-defense, questionable. 

 

Since the night of June 12, 2001, a killer was allowed to remain among the citizens of Asheboro, NC in Randolph County.

Another murder, precluding self defense, occurring in High Point, NC in Guilford County on October 2, 2004, took the life of Antonio Pryce by a High Point police officer. Mayor Becky Smothers and DA Doug Henderson learned new facts in this case in December 2008. These facts provided enough evidence for DA Henderson to re-open an investigation into the final investigative report, the SBI submitted to the former DA Stuart Albright, who relied upon the report to determine justifiable homicide by a police officer. To date, the facts continue to be concealed from the citizens in High Point and Guilford County by Mayor Smothers and DA Henderson.

In the aftermath of a scandal inside the SBI crime lab, the actions of Mayor Smothers and DA Henderson to conceal new evidence, involving possible errors by the SBI, should be held accountable for any shadow cast on the offices of the mayor and district attorney. 

Murder isn't barred in this state by the statute of limitations, therefore, new evidence showing a different outcome would've occurred if the evidence had been available, warrants the district attorney to re-open an investigation. Has this been done? No! Is it because a new investigation would expose the persons who were responsible for keeping the facts of this murder from the citizens in High Point and Guilford County! 

 

 

District Attorney Garland Yates will have to answer some tough questions covering a decade!

Actions by the Randolph County District Attorney's Office to prevent Dr. Mary Johnson's case from being brought to the attention of the North Carolina  State Attorney General's Office will be seen for what it is, an intentional, willful concealment of evidence to bar and obstruct any action seen likely to result in substantial financial loss for any individual and/or medical facility.

Facts, no longer containable by Garland Yates, the Randolph County District Attorney and others in his office, who concealed for a decade, the truth from the citizens of Asheboro, North Carolina in Randolph County, knowing, Daniel Brown was not the attacker as the newspapers printed, but a victim, 26 years of age and black, brutally butchered on the night of June 12, 2001!

Now, what does District Attorney Garland Yates intend to offer the public when they learn a killer was set free to walk amongst them and with the blessing of his Chief Assistant District Attorney, having determined the man, responsible for Daniel Brown's death had acted in self defense.

The medical examiner's report leaves no room for doubt, showing the extent of wounds would have required considerable time to complete. The depth of the wound of the 1st and 2nd digits on the left hand, exposed bone on both digits, indicating this was not a wound, inflicted in self defense. District Attorney Garland Yates has some hard questions to answer that spans a decade of justice, he obstructed, causing irreparable financial and other damages that would reasonably include emotional and physical, due to continued stress and forced travel away from home to maintain an income.

Daniel Brown died June 12, 2001, ten years ago, and his mother, five or six years later, but not before I met with her and shared a copy of her son's medical examiner's report, she said only confirmed what she believed had happened. She was satisfied, knowing the Randolph County Sheriff's Office had lied when they insisted a court order was needed to obtain the medical examiner's report, she was finally holding in her hand. I'll never forget the smile, Daniel Brown's mother gave me, telling me she now knows her son had died trying to defend himself, not wanting to do harm to someone. She was made knowledgeable of further facts that further supported her thoughts and that was enough for her and me. 

Good to hear that Dr. Mary Johnson is ready to combine forces with those who have also been wronged and blocked for years from getting their grievances heard and resolved!

This state has been forced to admit wrongdoing inside the SBI laboratory, and all the side stepping and interpretations will do no good, when all the evidence is in. The wrongdoing at the SBI isn't limited to just the crime lab, there are more areas that will demand Attorney General Roy Cooper's attention.

This information won't need a court's interpretation, it's gone beyond that! The people will have a say in this matter and it will change what's being done to Dr. Mary Johnson in Randolph County to conceal facts of a courageous doctor, whose split second decision to save an infant's life, was considered politically incorrect when reasons for her actions would have exposed another doctor. It's because of this political vacuum, all caring Christian human beings must refuse to tolerate any further stonewalling of Dr. Mary Johnson's story being told, and allow for this infant's life to be seen for its human value as was seen that night through Dr. Mary Johnson's eyes, when her career was sacrificed for doing what she was expected to do as a trained medical physician.