Washington, D.C. – Senate hopeful Democrat Cheri Beasley has a record of going easy on violent criminals during her time as North Carolina’s Supreme Court Chief Justice. Now more past decisions are coming to light.
“Democratic North Carolina Senate nominee Cheri Beasley voted to vacate a career criminal’s habitual felon status just after the man was caught with a “weapon of mass death,” a move that would have seen him receive a lighter sentence if he committed another crime.
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If Beasley got her way, however, the career criminal would have lost his habitual felon status. As a state Supreme Court justice in 2016, Beasley voted to vacate Floyd’s habitual felon conviction, arguing that one of Floyd’s past felonies prosecutors used to justify the designation—attempted assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury—”is not a crime in North Carolina.” A majority of Beasley’s fellow justices rejected the Democrat’s opinion, and as such, Floyd’s convictions were upheld. In addition to his attempted assault and illegal gun convictions, Floyd was found guilty of felony cocaine possession on at least two occasions, court documents obtained by the Washington Free Beacon show.
Beasley’s vote is at odds with her pledge to “[keep] North Carolina communities safe” in her campaign to replace retiring North Carolina Republican senator Richard Burr. That race has seen Beasley attempt to sidestep GOP criticism on her public safety record as a judge by denouncing the movement to defund police, which caught fire in the summer of 2020 following George Floyd’s death. But at that time, Beasley partly defended the Black Lives Matter riots that swept the nation after the event—during a June 2020 press conference, the Democrat said Americans “must recognize the legitimate pain and weight of years of disparate treatment that fuels these demonstrations.” Roughly three months later, Beasley said she was “excited about the fact that, since the death of George Floyd and so many others, we have been thinking differently about how we do our work.” – Free Beacon
The NRSC has released several ads highlighting Beasley’s dangerous record that is putting criminals over victims in North Carolina. And this instance is no different. Beasley’s actions show she is willing to make North Carolina less safe for families and voters will not let that slide. Voters can’t trust Cheri Beasley to protect their families.
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