Some 16,000 traffic charges ‘dismissed’ – by mistake – after North Carolina courts computer problem


A computer glitch in the North Carolina courts system erroneously classified thousands of dangerous driving violations in Mecklenburg County as dismissed, sending state personnel scrambling to fix the problem. — Image by vectorjuice on Freepik

A computer glitch in the North Carolina courts system erroneously classified thousands of dangerous driving violations in Mecklenburg County as dismissed, sending state personnel scrambling to fix the problem and leading District Attorney Spencer Merriweather to throw his cellphone across the room.

The error involves 300 active DWI cases that Merriweather’s office intends to prosecute.

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