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NC senator hasn't decided if she'll press charges against fellow senator
RALEIGH -- The dismissal of an ethics complaint filed by a North Carolina state senator doesn’t mean the issue is dropped.
State Sen. Erica Smith, a Henrico Democrat, could still press charges against Sen. Paul Lowe, a Winston-Salem Democrat, for an incident last year during a caucus meeting. A General Assembly police report summary found that Lowe had committed a simple assault.
At an online public forum Wednesday evening, Smith said she had not decided whether to press charges.
“Senator Paul Lowe has an anger management problem,” Smith said. “The reason I held off on criminal charges as a last resort is because I want to change the institution.”
Read more: https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politics-government/article243239276.html
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