North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

08/04/2025

SUMMARY

- Clara Smith was brutally murdered in a dorm on Martha’s Vineyard in 1940.
- Theater instructor Ralph Rice was wrongly tried and quickly acquitted.
- Another suspect, Harold Tracy, escaped, later confessed but was never prosecuted.
- A decades-later conversation confirmed Tracy admitted to the murder.



There are many ways to solve a murder. This isn’t one of them.

A 1940 murder on Martha’s Vineyard led to a botched trial, a guilty man walking free and a chilling confession decades later on a hotel porch.

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07/25/2025

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07/15/2025

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07/08/2025

A longtime administrative law judge has taken the post of chief administrative law judge of the North Carolina Office of Administrative Hearings, a release from the North Carolina Judicial Branch says.

Judge Melissa Owens Lassiter’s appointment was effective July 1. Appointed by state Chief Justice Paul Newby, Lassiter takes the post that has been held since 2021 by Dr. Donald R. van der Vaart.

Judge Melissa Lassiter, a 25-year veteran ALJ, has been appointed chief administrative law judge for North Carolina’s Office of Administrative Hearings.

07/07/2025

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06/30/2025

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06/30/2025

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06/25/2025

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