Rep. Tim Moore, R-N.C., said Tuesday he is leading a push to remove a North Carolina magistrate who released a repeat violent offender later charged in a fatal stabbing in Charlotte.
“Today, I led a letter calling for the removal of Magistrate Judge Teresa Stokes, who released a 14-time offender who went on to murder Iryna Zarutska in Charlotte,” Moore wrote on social media. “This tragedy was preventable. There must be accountability. North Carolinians deserve better.”
The letter, addressed to Chief Judge Roy H. Wiggins, accused Stokes of “willful and persistent failure to perform the duties of the office or conduct prejudicial to the administration of justice that brings the judicial office into disrepute.”
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