One after another, the mistakes mounted in the probation offices handling the cases of the men charged with murdering UNC-Chapel Hil student body president Eve Carson.
Demario Atwater, 21, had not received as much as a phone call from his probation officer for more than a year.
Laurence Alvin Lovette, 17, had a probation officer who, after seven months on the job, still had not received basic training or met the teenager.