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Amanda Martin, an attorney for the North Carolina Press Association, says that while state law doesn't require the police or the district attorney to share the results of their criminal investigation with Ehrenburg or the public, they could if they chose to because the cases are closed.
Given that no criminal charges have been filed against the officer who shot Ehrenburg, it's hard to understand why the police would hesitate to share the results of their investigation with Ehrenburg's family unless they have something to hide, Barnhart says.
While state law forbids the department from sharing information pertaining to the personnel side of the investigation, it could still share most of its case file if it chose to, Martin says.
Barnhart believes that if the full details of the events leading up to Ehrenburg's death were known to the public, and had been scrutinized by the public, cell tower repair man Anthony Wayne Furr, who was shot by police July 2006 after he was surprised while working on a tower off Albemarle Road, might not have been killed.
"I think the biggest thing that happened in Sasha [Ehrenburg's] case was that they surprised him and had that been dealt with, Wayne Furr wouldn't have been surprised," said Barnhart. "I think that's the No. 1 issue. How do you surprise people in their workplace or their living environment and expect them not to react?"
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