OFFICER ADMITS TO PLANT

Affidavit: Drugs Facilitated Arrest

GREENSBORO -- A narcotics investigator admits in an affidavit that officers
planted crack cocaine on a defendant, the latest revelation in a case that
has resulted in more than 30 drug defendants' having charges dismissed or
convictions overturned.

A court motion by convict Terrence Maurice Barriet breaks new ground in the
case of former Davidson County narcotics officers charged last December
with distributing drugs. Included with the motion is an affidavit from one
of the officers, David Scott Woodall.

"Terrence Maurice Barriet did not have drugs on his person or property on
May 22, 1999," Woodall said in the affidavit.

"The crack cocaine was provided ... in order to facilitate an arrest ...
that would result in prison sentence for Terrence Maurice Barriet."

Woodall said in the affidavit that Barriet was ordered "to not give trouble
to the case, or his wife would be victimized also."

Woodall said he was giving the statement without any favors being offered.
He also offered to testify in court.

U.S. Attorney Anna Mills Wagoner's office has requested and received two
30-day extensions to respond to Barriet's motion. Lynn Klauer, a
spokeswoman for the office, declined to comment on the matter.

Barriet is serving a 10-year term at the Federal Correctional Institution
in Manchester, Ky. It is the same prison where Woodall is serving a 27-year
sentence.

Woodall was the one of four law-enforcement officers and two others
sentenced in July in federal court on charges of extortion and conspiring
to distribute cocaine, marijuana, ecstasy and anabolic steroids.

Three of the four were officers with the Davidson County Sheriff's Department.

In May, two months after Woodall pleaded guilty to the conspiracy charges,
Barriet filed a motion to vacate his sentence. Barriet is serving as his
own lawyer. He renewed the motion in August after running into procedural
delays.

Barriet, 32, has had a decade of trouble with the law. He worked as a
jailer for about eight months in 1992 but resigned after being falsely
accused of selling drugs, according to a court document.

In the 10 years since, he has been charged with several offenses, including
possession of drugs and drug paraphernalia, carrying a concealed weapon and
assault on a female.