McRae v. Town of Hope Mills, et al

Filing 57

JOINT STIPULATION AND CONSENT ORDER FOR PRODUCTION OF STATE BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION FILE - Signed by District Judge Louise Wood Flanagan on 1/6/2017. (Baker, C.)

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE EASTERN DISTRJCT OF NORTH CAROLINA
WESTERN DIVISION
Civil Action No. 5: 16-cv-00088-FL
Michelle McRae, Administrator for the
Estate of Kevin Dijon Grissett,

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plaintiff,
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The Town of Hope Mills, Joel Acciardo,
Individually and in his official capacity as
Chief, Hope Mills Police Depruiment, and
Jacob Ransone Pfeffer, Individually and in
his official capacity as a law enforcement
officer with the Hope Mills Police
Department,
Defendants.

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JOINT STIPULATION AND CONSENT
ORDER FOR PRODUCTION OF STATE
BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION FILE

Plaintiff, Defendants and the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation ("SBI") stipulate
to the entry of this Joint Stipulation and Consent Order allowing release of the SBI File No. 201400215, regarding the investigation of Plaintiffs allegations of negligence, gross negligence, assault
and battery, wrongful death, excessive force, deprivation of life outside the law of the land, violation
of civil rights, deliberate indifference and failure to properly hire, supervise, train and discipline
against the Defendants, to counsel for Plaintiff and for Defendants.
Counsel for the parties and counsel for the SBI further stipulate and agree to the following
statements of facts, which authorize this Court's entry of the Joint Stipulation and Consent Order:
1.

The SBI file material is relevant to the subject matter involved in the case before this

2.

Cotmsel for the SBI, after reviewing this file and related documents, has detetmined

Court.

that she has no objection to turning over the SBI file materials requested to counsel for Plaintiff and
Defendants in response to the parties' request for the following reasons:
A.

No policy reasons exist for denial of the parties' request for production of

these materials;

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B.

There is no prejudice to the SBI by releasing this material;

C.

There are no identities of persons contained in the materials which need to be

protected;

D.

Any criminal investigation which might have been the subject of this SBI

file has been concluded; and
E.

The interests of the State ofNorth Carolina are not prejudiced in any way by

the release of these materials to counsel for the Plaintiff and Defendants.

3.

Except as may be othe:tw:ise provided by further Order of the Court, documents

contained within the SBI file shall be used for no purpose other thall prosecuting or defending this

action and shall be disclosed only to the persons identified in paragraph 6 below.

4.

Access to and the use of any documents, or any part thereof, of the SBI file shall be

limited to:

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the Court;

B.

the parties and attorneys of record for the parties;

C.

court-appointed mediators;

D.

consultants and technical experts involved in the preparation of this action;

E.

court reporters, their transcribers, assistants, and employees;

F.

any potential or actual deposition or trial witness to the extent that it is

necessary to tender to such witness as an exhibit a confidential document in order to elicit
testimony relevant to the matters at issue in this case;

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thejury.

Counsel may make copies of the SBI file materials for Plaintiff's or Defendants'

experts upon receiving from said experts a written agreement that they will be bound by the terms
of this Joint Stipulation and Consent Order. The requirement of obtaining such an agreement shall
be satisfied by having each of the Plaintiff's or Defendants' experts read, acknowledge, and agree in
writing to the be bound by this Joint Stipulation and Consent Order. A file of all such written
acknowledgments shall be maintained by the Plaintiff's and/or Defendants' counsel. By signing the
declaration agreeing to be bound by this Joint Stipulation and Consent Order, each of Plaintiff's or
Defendants' experts submit himself or herself to the jurisdiction of this Court for purposes of
enforcement of this Joint Stipulation and Consent Order.

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Individuals who are permitted access to the SBI file materials pursuant to paragraph

6.

6 are hereby ordered not to show, convey, or reproduce any documents so designated or parts
thereof, or copies thereof, or any matter contained therein, or any extracts or summaries thereof, to
any individual, or to any entity that would not otherwise have access to said documents under
provisions of this Joint Stipulation and Consent Order. The records shall not be further copied in
any manner without permission of the Court and all original and allowed copies thereof shall be
returned to the SBI at the conclusion of this action vvith a certification that no other copies exist and
that all copies have been duly returned in compliance with this Order.

7.

At the conclusion of this litigation, each document produced by the SBI and subject

to this Joint Stipulation and Consent Order shall be returned to the SBI for destruction.

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Dan M. Hartzog, Jr., Esq.
PO Box 27808
Raleigh, NC 27611-7808
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NORTH CAROLINA STATE BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

Angel E. Gray, Esq.
General Counsel
PO Box 29500
3320 Garner Rd.
Raleigh, NC 27626-0500
[e-mail]

APPROVED. This the 6th day of January, 2017.

Louise W. Flanagan
U.S . District Court Judge

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