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Durham District Attorney Deberry’s entry shakes up Democratic primary race for attorney general
View Date:2024-12-23 23:18:40
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Durham County District Attorney Satana Deberry is running for North Carolina attorney general next year, a spokesperson said on Friday.
Her candidacy shakes up a Democratic primary for the job that had appeared to swing heavily toward U.S. Rep. Jeff Jackson. Now Jackson, who got into the race two weeks ago after the General Assembly drew during redistricting his home into a heavily Republican congressional district, will compete with a current top local prosecutor from an urban county that is overwhelmingly Democratic.
Deberry was first elected DA in 2018 and was reelected last year after winning almost 80% of the Democratic primary vote. Her time as district attorney has been marked in part by efforts to alter how cash bonds for suspects are used and to promote diversion programs for offenders of nonviolent crimes.
Joy Cook, the spokesperson for Deberry’s campaign, said more information would be available later Friday.
Duplin County attorney Charles M. Ingram and Fayetteville lawyer Tim Dunn also have announced bids for the Democratic nomination to become North Carolina’s top law enforcement officer. Republican U.S. Rep. Dan Bishop said in August he would seek the GOP nomination. Primary elections are March 5.
A Republican hasn’t been elected attorney general in North Carolina in over 100 years. Current Attorney General Josh Stein, a Democrat, is running for governor.
Bishop and Jackson are considered strong fundraisers and high-profile names in their respective parties. Jackson ran for U.S. Senate until he left the race in late 2021, deferring to ultimate nominee Cheri Beasley.
Deberry hasn’t formally run for a statewide position before and would become the first Black woman elected to such a job if she were to win in November 2024. Jackson, an ex-state senator, Afghan war veteran and National Guard soldier, also was once a former assistant prosecutor in Gaston County.
Deberry told The News & Observer of Raleigh during her 2022 DA’s campaign that she had “brought a sense of equity and fairness” to the Durham DA’s office.
“Our approach separates out the violent crime from the unnecessary prosecution of the most vulnerable members of our community just because they are poor or mentally ill or have substance abuse issues,” she told the newspaper. She also said at the time she would continue to decline to consider the death penalty in murder cases, calling the punishment “neither fair nor equitable.”
Deberry, who is from Richmond County and graduated from Princeton University and Duke University law school, also previously served as general counsel for the state Department of Health and Human Services and executive director of the North Carolina Housing Coalition.
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