- The North Carolina Court of Appeals has rejected a request from the Southern States Police Benevolent Association to submit a brief in a case involving a COVID shutdown protest arrest.
- The police group wanted to respond to legal arguments from Wake County District Attorney Lorrin Freeman, a defendant in the case Ussery v. Cooper.
- SSPBA disputes Freeman’s arguments about the source of prosecutors’ immunity from civil lawsuits.
The North Carolina Court of Appeals will not allow a multistate police group to add its legal arguments to a case involving an arrest at a 2020 COVID shutdown protest.
Without comment, the court issued an order Tuesday denying a request from the Southern States Police Benevolent Association.
The association supported neither party in the case Ussery v. Cooper. Monica Ussery sued law enforcement officers and others involved in her arrest at a ReOpenNC protest near the governor’s mansion in 2020…