Rep. Marcia Morey on efforts to roll back the recently enacted Raise the Age law

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Rep. Marcia Morey (Photo: NCGA)

In 2019, North Carolina was the last state in the union to modernize its criminal justice system by ending the practice of automatically treating 16 and 17-year-olds accused of criminal offenses as adults. Now, however, state lawmakers are considering a proposal to backtrack on that progress. Under a bill moving through the General Assembly, the Raise the Age law would be, in effect, repealed for several classes of felonies.

One lawmaker who has deep concerns about the move is Durham County Representative (and former chief district court judge) Marcia Morey. Recently, NC Newslinecaught up with Morey to learn about her concerns – as well as to get her thoughts on the state’s impending childcare crisis and the troubling attacks on our justice system that have followed in the wake of Donald Trump’s conviction for falsifying records.

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