The adult daughter of Alamance County’s sheriff is about to head to the state’s second highest court to appeal a criminal conviction for selling a fatal dose of illegal narcotics to an overdose victim in 2021.
The N.C. Court of Appeals is slated to hear oral arguments on Tuesday to determine if Emily Jean Robinson did, in fact, get a fair hearing when she was tried for “death by distribution” and several other drug-related offenses in May of 2024.
The daughter of Alamance County’s long-serving sheriff Terry Johnson, Robinson was ultimately found guilty on all counts by a jury comprised of Alamance County residents. The 44-year-old Snow Camp resident was then sentenced to a prison term of 5 to 7 years by a special superior court judge who had been assigned to preside over her trial…