A NEW TRIAL

Background Timeline Jan 24 2000 Grand Jury indicted Allen for first degree murder. Oct 27-Nov 13, 2003 Trial- Guilty verdict Mar 3, 2006...

In order to convict the State employs a variety of tools, the regular beat cop or sheriffs deputy, up to and including Federal agents,...

Prosecutorial misconduct is a term broadly used to describe the actions taken by and behaviour of a prosecutor, whether at State (i.e....

The Hippocratic Oath, as taken by physicians, in part states that they will do no harm; will abstain from whatever is harmful or...

How do you ‘PROVE IT’. What can you say other than ‘I am innocent of this’. More than once over the years I have heard that someone who...

On Feb 21st Scott gave a short talk to students at UNC Chapel Hill as part of Frank Baumgartner's course - Race, Innocence, and the End...

I am under no illusions as to my situation. A sentence of Death was decided upon by twelve individuals who were lied to and manipulated...

There is a wasps nest just outside the narrow little window of the cell I exist in. It has been there, empty, for the few years that I...

My father figure was my grandfather (Papaw), my mom’s dad. He seldom spoke and was hardly idle. Born in 1918, he grew up through the...

Who am I to give advice on anything to anyone at any time? Considering where I am and have been for so long that people have moved on and...

What does this aphorism mean exactly? Time is a human construct designed to regulate our existence, as if just living, and being, is...

13th August 2021, the NC Supreme Court published their opinion, deciding in Scott's favour to send his appeal back to the MAR court to...

Commentary on Lyle May's article "Measures meant to make North Carolina prisons safer are doing the opposite" Scalawag Magazine, Oct 2018...

Remember when? Sometimes that is how it happens, at others it’s ‘he did that’ or ‘she said this.’ These things occur during family...

The Reconstruction Act of 1867 compelled southern states to rewrite their constitutions. North Carolina legislators mandated the...

This post is part three of an ongoing series. Part 1: Ponder This Part 2: Harmless Error You’ve now read about how many people are...

We uploaded a new document to our resources section. It is a court transcript providing some insight into the history of Scott's hearings...

A few years ago, my current attorney and I were discussing the ongoing problems with the mail room here at the prison. Missing incoming...

This post is part two of an ongoing series. Part 1: Ponder This Part 3: Reasons Why When the U. S. Supreme Court first expressed that...