Eight former and current Winston-Salem police officers have appealed a judge's decision that would open to the public the statements they made to a citizens committee that reviewed the 1995 assault at the Silk Plant Forest store.
Although Superior Court Judge Richard Stone last week ordered the statements be made public by March 14, the officers on Tuesday filed a request for Stone to temporarily block the release of the statements until a state appeals court can review his decision.
At stake is public disclosure of statements the officers made to the Silk Plant Forest Citizens Review Committee, a group that reviewed the police investigation into the beating of Jill Marker, a manager at the former Silk Plant Forest store on Silas Creek Parkway. The attack left Marker, who was 4 1/2 months pregnant, with severe brain damage. Today she is blind and living under 24-hour care in Ohio.
The man convicted of beating marker, Kalvin Michael Smith, is serving 23 to 29 years in prison. He has maintained his innocence.
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