Called to account

One of two men accused of killing Eve Carson should have been in jail on a probation violation. Why wasn't he?

Raleigh News & Observer

Now the questions start piling up - beyond the unanswerable one about why promising young adults were brutally killed for what may have been the flimsiest of reasons, robbery. Two people are charged with killing Eve Carson, student body president at UNC-Chapel Hill, and one of them also in the slaying of Duke University graduate student Abhijit Mahato. Both suspects have criminal records. Both were on probation at the time of Carson's death.

At least one of the suspects apparently was scarcely monitored by the probation office. The outrageous lapses leave the public understandably frustrated with the legal system, and fearful that other dangerous criminals roam the streets because of a slack system.