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Supreme Court sides with DA in David vs. Jolly

RALEIGH, NC (WECT) – The North Carolina State Supreme Court ruled in favor of Brunswick county District Attorney Jon David in an argument with Judge Jerry Jolly.

The argument dates back to April 2011, when Judge Jolly issued an administrative order shutting down a traffic program.  Jolly said the organizer of the StreetSafe program was a contributor to David's campaign and that created a conflict of interest.

An official document filed by the Supreme Court Friday says, "The order of the District court is vacated in every and each respect."  This means the court determined Jolly did not have the power to shut down the traffic program last year.

David released the following statement in regards to the ruling:

Today, the Supreme Court of North Carolina filed an opinion vacating Judge Jerry Jolly's
Administrative Order of April 14, 2011 in its entirety. In essence, the Court ruled that Judge
Jolly lacked the authority to enter his original order which had suspended traffic court and
prevented the District Attorney's Office from using the StreetSafe Program. Now that the
Supreme Court has spoken, I look forward to working closely with all of our judges to make
traffic court more efficient. In doing this, I am pleased that the StreetSafe Program can now be
utilized to educate our children and protect our streets.

Jolly and David were able to reach an agreement in August  to reinstate traffic court.

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