Carolina Alumni Review - September/October 2010

‘It was
mentioned

well, believe me,

it was more
than a nudge.
Chris Mumma
is very, very

I. Beverly Lake retired N.C. Supreme Court chief justice

Christine Mumma

of the Innocence Inquiry Commission was Wake County District Attorney Colon Willoughby ’ 73, setting up a clash with Mumma that would continue through the Greg Taylor proceedings before the special three-judge panel.

Mumma had sparred with DAs before. She’d butted heads with many people in the criminal justice system while fighting for the people in whom she believed; because if she was right, it meant that somewhere along the way, the district attorneys had been wrong. And now — as in the Taylor case — they would have to find and prosecute the real criminal.

SHAWN ROCCO/THE NEWS & OBSERVER
Mitch Mumma recalled a case early in
Christine’s career with the Center on
Actual Innocence, when the district attor-
ney involved made her a blunt bargain: My
guy is in jail, he told her. Bring me the guy
who did it, and I’ll let your guy out.

“That was the first time I realized that
not everybody in the criminal justice sys-
tem believes that having innocent people
behind bars is a problem,” he said.
Mandy Hitchcock ’98, and an ’07 grad-
uate of UNC’s law school, worked on Tay-

Paul A. Godley, MD, Ph D, Medical Oncology

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