“This is the banality of evil. All of this is so normalized and bizarre. Just a boilerplate order: he didn’t come to court, he didn’t demonstrate good cause. Well, he’s dead. And you know that because you saw a government website saying that he’s dead.”
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North Carolina judge said Levi Mendez-Maldonado failed to show up in court – even after being told he had died in 2024
