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Brad Cooper Granted New Trial: North Carolina Supreme Court Denies PDR in Cooper Case
Brad Cooper Granted New Trial: North Carolina Supreme Court Denies PDR in Cooper Case
Raleigh, NC (PRWEB) January 26, 2014
After considering a petition for discretionary review filed by the North Carolina Attorney General’s Office in “State v. Cooper”, the N.C. Supreme Court upheld the ruling of the N.C. Court of Appeals granting Brad Cooper a new trial. Cooper was found guilty in May 2011 of murdering his wife Nancy and was sentenced to life in prison without parole. The homicide rocked Cary, a Wake County town with a reputation for safety and the trial itself made national headlines.
Cooper’s conviction was overturned by the N.C. Court of Appeals because the defense was not allowed to present expert testimony in rebuttal to certain computer and internet evidence offered by the prosecution. The Court of Appeals held that this oversight by the trial court was egregious enough to warrant a new trial.
“This is a real victory for justice,” said Howard Kurtz, trial counsel for Mr. Cooper. “Brad absolutely deserves a new trial and everyone in our office is very excited about the Supreme Court’s decision.”
Mr. Kurtz, who headed Cooper’s defense team during the original trial (08 CRS 22922), is pleased that Brad is getting a second chance to go before a jury but doesn’t expect the trial to occur any time in the near future.
“The Cooper case was the longest non-capital trial to ever occur in Wake County,” Howard explains. “The first trial lasted for 10 weeks, and that was without allowing [the defense] to present the expert testimony that we wanted. This is not the type of case that anyone can be ready for overnight.”
In the meantime, the knowledge that there is still much left to do in the Cooper case is not stopping the defense team from celebrating the Supreme Court’s decision.
“Mr. Cooper still has a long road ahead of him and it will be some time before this case is set to rest once and for all,” remarked Seth Blum, Kurtz’s law partner and co-founder of Kurtz and Blum, PLLC. “That being said, we’re enormously pleased – this really is a step in the right direction.”
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Baton Rouge School of Court Reporting (BRSCR) Announces Addition of TFC Credit Corporation for Tuition Financing
Baton Rouge School of Court Reporting (BRSCR) Announces Addition of TFC Credit Corporation for Tuition Financing
Baton Rouge, LA (PRWEB) November 30, 2011
Baton Rouge School of Court Reporting (BRSCR) announces it has joined with TFC Credit Corporation to supply tuition financing for its current and prospective students. According to Karen Vornkahl, Administrative Director of the school, the partnership will give students a wider range of flexible financing plans, which includes lower monthly payments.
BRSCR is an on the web and onsite court reporting school in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. In its sixth year, the school teaches Court Reporting and CART/Captioning for each steno machine writing and voice writing. Scopist Coaching and numerous administrative-sort courses round out the curriculum.
“Even though we continue to offer an interest-free monthly payment program,” says Vornkahl, “the addition of TFC Tuition Financing lets some students extend the payment period with only modest interest, thereby lowering their payments for the duration of schooling.”
According to the TFC Credit Corporation web site, TFC has been supplying tuition financing for students because 1970, with the mission of providing financing for students who are serious about their careers and serious about their private success. Use of TFC Financing can support students to either establish credit or strengthen a credit rating.
Explains Vornkahl: “We always encourage students to attempt to spend as they go in the course of school to lower the overall price of their education and to stop staggering repayment obligations after graduation. We really feel like TFC Credit offers a excellent balance of spend-as-you-go mentality and fiscally responsible financing.”
Since BRSCR is licensed as a private school, it has flexibility in meeting students’ requirements for both scheduling and economic obligation. It gives day, night, and online classes with a range of tuition rates ranging in the $ 300+ per month range, rates considerably lower than a lot of bigger schools with higher overhead and more demanding restrictions.
According to a US News report, Court Reporting is listed as 1 of the 50 greatest careers in 2011, with “strong growth” predicted more than the subsequent decade. In addition, the exact same abilities that are utilised by court reporters can also be used for CART/Captioning, which consists of classroom captioning to a laptop laptop or computer for hearing impaired students to follow along with live lectures, plus on-air broadcast captioning more than a modem to a tv station.
Training to turn out to be a court reporter by way of BRSCR ranges in length of time from 9 months for a voice writer to approximately 24-30 months for a machine writer. Scopist coaching is a 6-month course.
BRSCR has a sister campus in Metairie, Louisiana, Specialist Institute of Court Reporting, Inc., which offers the very same economic arrangements of an interest-cost-free monthly payment and/or extended-pay tuition financing.
For far more data, go to http://www.brscr.com, or make contact with Admissions(at)brscr(dot)com or Admissions(at)pi-cr(dot)com.
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