You probably know what it’s like to repeatedly ask a coworker to get you something, like a document or maybe an email address, and that person just ignores you. Or maybe a coworker constantly makes errors, affecting your ability to do your own job. It’s frustrating, right? Well, some federal judges are feeling frustrated with attorneys at the North Carolina Department of Justice over the same sort of thing and the consequences can be more significant than a bit of irritation. Like the delay of a trial by more than a year in one case. Jeffrey Billman is one of the reporters who wrote about it for the Assembly. He joined WFAE’s Marshall Terry.
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