{"id":7442,"date":"2017-01-09T19:18:50","date_gmt":"2017-01-10T00:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carolinaattorneys.com\/?p=7442"},"modified":"2025-10-09T14:26:03","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T18:26:03","slug":"blog-nc-advocates-for-justice-im-just-sayin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolinaattorneys.com\/blog\/blog-nc-advocates-for-justice-im-just-sayin\/","title":{"rendered":"NC Advocates for Justice \u2013 I&#8217;m Just Sayin&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7443 lazyload\" src=\"\/jshared\/img\/icons\/spinner.svg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.carolinaattorneys.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Bill-Powers-NCAJ-Presidents-Column-Winter-2017-Page-1.jpg\" alt=\"Bill-Powers-NCAJ-Presidents-Column-Winter-2017-Page-1\" width=\"721\" height=\"901\" \/><\/h1>\n<h1><\/h1>\n<h1><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">NC Advocates for Justice &#8211; I&#8217;m Just Sayin&#8217;<\/span><\/h1>\n<blockquote>\n<h3><strong><span style=\"color: #339966;\">In North Carolina, &#8216;I\u2019m Just Sayin\u2019 means, I am going to speak the truth, even if it is not popular. \u00a0It is, was, and always has been the truth &#8211; Bill Powers, President NCAJ\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7444 lazyload\" src=\"\/jshared\/img\/icons\/spinner.svg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.carolinaattorneys.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Bill-Powers-NCAJ-Presidents-Column-Winter-2017-Page-2.jpg\" alt=\"Bill-Powers-NCAJ-Presidents-Column-Winter-2017-Page-2\" width=\"729\" height=\"942\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7445 lazyload\" src=\"\/jshared\/img\/icons\/spinner.svg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.carolinaattorneys.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Bill-Powers-NCAJ-Presidents-Column-Winter-2017-Page-3.jpg\" alt=\"Bill-Powers-NCAJ-Presidents-Column-Winter-2017-Page-3\" width=\"730\" height=\"926\" \/><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.carolinaattorneys.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Bill-Powers-Presidents-Column-NCAJ-010917.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">NCAJ Bill Powers \u00a0President&#8217;s Column NCAJ<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.carolinaattorneys.com\/blog\/blog-nc-advocates-for-justice-im-just-sayin\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading NC Advocates for Justice \u2013 I&#8217;m Just Sayin&#8217;\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NC Advocates for Justice &#8211; I&#8217;m Just Sayin&#8217; In North Carolina, &#8216;I\u2019m Just Sayin\u2019 means, I am going to speak the truth, even if it is not popular. \u00a0It is, was, and always has been the truth &#8211; Bill Powers, President NCAJ\u00a0 NCAJ Bill Powers \u00a0President&#8217;s Column NCAJ Continue reading<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10593,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,6,64],"tags":[755,32,917,918,919,920,921,188,60,661],"class_list":["post-7442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-criminal-defense","category-dwi","category-north-carolina-advocates-for-justice","tag-advocacy","tag-bill-powers","tag-im-just-sayin","tag-im-just-saying","tag-just-sayin","tag-just-saying","tag-nc-advocates-for-justice","tag-ncaj","tag-north-carolina","tag-president"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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