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From left: Attorney Twyla Hollingsworth, Judge Lisa Bell, Judge Tyyawdi Hands, Attorney Donald Cureton, Judge Tim Smith, Judge Jena Culler, Attorney Matt Osman.
District judge candidates in
contested races make their case
Sept. 14, 2010
Seven of the eight candidates in November's contested District Court Judge races were at the Forum Tuesday. All made initial statements, which are below in audio form.
The seven were Chief Judge Lisa Bell, Judge Jena Culler, attorney Donald Cureton, Judge Tyyawdi Hands, attorney Twyla Hollingsworth, attorney Matt Osman and Judge Tim Smith.
The pairings are Bell-Hollingsworth, Culler-Cureton, Smith-Osman and Hands-Sean Smith, who was not present.
Culler, Hands and Smith were due in court and so they left immediately after making their initial statements. Cureton left for court after addressing the second question below. Sarah Stevenson invited those leaving early to attend any future Forum, when time would be made for them to address questions.
During the question period, the following questions were asked. Answers to some of these questions will appear below under the name of the speaker. For each question included below, all answers offered will be included.
Question 1: Can justice be served in a courtroom
with a daily caseload of 1,200 cases?
Question 2: We know you follow the law, but how does empathy play
into your decision-making?
Question 3: Would you support a bill now in the N.C. Legislature to
change divorce law to create a presumption that shared parenting
after a divorce is the preferred outcome?
Question 4: How is it that persons with DWI convictions are causing accidents that kill people?
Question 5: What programs will help teens expunge from the record
the convictions that later prevent them from getting jobs?
Question 6: State your party affiliation and why you are so
affiliated?
Question 7: Do judges see any correlation between inadequate
education and convictions that would justify prison construction planners
using scores on third-grade standardized tests to project the
need for new prison beds?
Question 8: What difference does experience make?
Question 9: How can current procedures for expungement of sentences
be used?
Lisa Bell
Initial statement
Q1: Can justice be served in a courtroom with a daily caseload of 1,200 cases?
Q2: We know you follow the law, but how does empathy play into your decision-making?
Q3: Would you support a bill in the N.C. Legislature to change divorce law to create a presumption that shared parenting after a divorce is the preferred outcome?
Q4: How is it that persons with DWI convictions are causing accidents that kill people?
Q5: What programs will help teens expunge from the record the convictions that later prevent them from getting jobs?
Q6: State your party affiliation and why you are so affiliated?
Q7: Do judges see any correlation between inadequate education and convictions that would justify prison construction planners using scores on third-grade standardized tests to project the need for new prison beds?
Q8: What difference does experience make?
Q9: How can current procedures for expungement of sentences be used?
Jena Culler
Initial statement
Donald Cureton
Initial statement
Q2: We know you follow the law, but how does empathy play into your decision-making?
Tyyawdi Monique Hands
Initial statement
Twyla Hollingsworth
Initial statement
Q1: Can justice be served in a courtroom with a daily caseload of 1,200 cases?
Q2: We know you follow the law, but how does empathy play into your decision-making?
Q3: Would you support a bill in the N.C. Legislature to change divorce law to create a presumption that shared parenting after a divorce is the preferred outcome?
Q4: How is it that persons with DWI convictions are causing accidents that kill people?
Q5: What programs will help teens expunge from the record the convictions that later prevent them from getting jobs?
Q6: State your party affiliation and why you are so affiliated?
Q7: Do judges see any correlation between inadequate education and convictions that would justify prison construction planners using scores on third-grade standardized tests to project the need for new prison beds?
Q8: What difference does experience make?
Matt Osman
Initial statement
Q2: We know you follow the law, but how does empathy play into your decision-making?
Q3: Would you support a bill in the N.C. Legislature to change divorce law to create a presumption that shared parenting after a divorce is the preferred outcome?
Q4: How is it that persons with DWI convictions are causing accidents that kill people?
Q5: What programs will help teens expunge from the record the convictions that later prevent them from getting jobs?
Q6: State your party affiliation and why you are so affiliated?
Q7: Do judges see any correlation between inadequate education and convictions that would justify prison construction planners using scores on third-grade standardized tests to project the need for new prison beds?
Q8: What difference does experience make?
Q9: How can current procedures for expungement of sentences be used?
Tim Smith
Initial statement
Your District Court
Sept. 12, 2010
Seats contested in November election:
Lisa Bell
Donald Cureton, Jr.
Tyyawdi Monique Hands
Sean Smith
Matt Osman
Tim Smith
Note: The Forum would welcome additional links to Internet resource material on the candidates. Send URLs to [email protected].
Uncontested seats on November ballot:
Rickye McKoy-Mitchell
Paige B. McThenia
Regan A. Miller
Theo Nixon
Becky Thorne Tin
Incumbents in District Court seats:
Lisa Bell
Kimberly Y. Best
Charlotte Brown-Williams
Ronald L. Chapman
H. William Constangy
Jena Culler
Tyyawdi M. Hands
Donnie Hoover
Hugh B. Lewis
Christy T. Mann
Rickye McKoy-Mitchell
Paige B. McThenia
Regan A. Miller
Thomas F. Moore, Jr.
Theo X. Nixon
Timothy M. Smith
Becky Thorne Tin
John Totten
Elizabeth Thornton Trosch
Louis A. Trosch, Jr.