CHARLOTTE, N.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) — Come Monday, anti-crime legislation named after Iryna Zarutska will go into effect.
Zarutska was stabbed to death in August while riding Charlotte’s light rail as it pulled into the East/West Station Boulevard Station in South End.
The bill got bipartisan support at the General Assembly in Raleigh because of some of the changes it made to the justice system. That included banning cashless bail for certain violent crimes and repeat offenders, limiting how often judges can allow pretrial release, and requiring more defendants to receive mental health evaluations…