{"id":1708,"date":"2019-12-14T18:53:02","date_gmt":"2019-12-14T18:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/9thstreetjournal.org\/?p=1708"},"modified":"2023-03-27T15:52:52","modified_gmt":"2023-03-27T15:52:52","slug":"archie-smith-the-unlikely-rise-of-a-durham-native-and-atticus-finch-fan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/9thstreetjournal.org\/2019\/12\/14\/archie-smith-the-unlikely-rise-of-a-durham-native-and-atticus-finch-fan\/","title":{"rendered":"Archie Smith: the unlikely rise of a Durham native and Atticus Finch fan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Archie Smith spoke to the young woman the day before she was murdered.<\/span><\/p>\n

He had just started practicing law and saw the woman in the old Durham courthouse. She told him she was concerned about his client, who was charged with a violent crime.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cLook, are you up here today to see if you can get him out on bond?\u201d she asked Smith.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cYes, I am,\u201d he told her.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cPlease don\u2019t do that. I\u2019m the victim. I\u2019m going to get attacked. If you get him out on bond, he\u2019s going to hurt me.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2018Ma\u2019am, I\u2019m a lawyer, and I have an obligation to represent the best interest of my client. I\u2019m compelled to do that as an officer of this court.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Today, he can only remember that she was a school teacher, but he can\u2019t recall her name. He was an attorney, \u201cyoung and stupid. Full of myself,\u201d he says.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cSure enough, I got him out. The next day I was up at the jailhouse, and he\u2019d killed her,\u201d Smith says.<\/span><\/p>\n

Today, Smith says he still carries a sense of guilt from the woman\u2019s death.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe woman looked me right square in the eye and predicted it. What it taught me was that hubris has no place in my life. If I had not been as callow, if I had been more mature at the time and listened and believed, she may still be alive today.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

He tries to bring that humility to his job every day as the Durham clerk of Superior Court. It may sound like a humdrum job, but it\u2019s actually makes him one of the most powerful people in the courthouse. While the media eye watches District Attorney Satana Deberry or the defense attorneys, Smith not only manages the vital records of the courts, but he also acts as a judge\u00a0 in cases about who\u2019s competent to manage their finances and their legal affairs.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Step into Smith\u2019s trinket-filled office on the second floor and you\u2019ll discover one of the most interesting characters of the courthouse, a native Durhamite who keeps the place running and tries to create community among the employees.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2018All rise for the judge\u2019<\/b><\/p>\n

In North Carolina, court clerks have sweeping powers. Smith oversees the vital court records; he\u2019s judge for about 46 proceedings, and he manages about 40% of Judicial Branch employees. Since becoming clerk, he\u2019s aimed to build community among the staff.<\/span><\/p>\n

Smith’s biggest responsibilities include controlling the inflow and outflow of court funds and hearing probate cases, where people quarrel over a dead relative\u2019s will. And much of the time that he acts as judge, it\u2019s up to him to keep and file the records.<\/span><\/p>\n

Smith, 69, is a folksy grandpa with a fondness for Atticus Finch from \u201cTo Kill A Mockingbird.\u201d He has shaved his white goatee and mustache into an upside-down teardrop shape. His teeth \u2014 slightly crooked on top and spaced out on the bottom \u2014 are visible when he grins and chuckles.<\/span><\/p>\n

He talks slowly with a slight Southern drawl, chattering about \u201chogwash\u201d or \u201ca duck sitting in the water splashing.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe funnest part of my job?\u201d He says. \u201cShowing up.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

He puts people at ease. When the assistant clerk announces \u201cAll rise for the judge!\u201d, Smith responds with a quick request that they sit, like he\u2019s displeased with the formality.<\/span><\/p>\n

He then changes to a professional, get-this-case-done approach, says Danielle Briggs, a county attorney at the Department of Social Services, who works with him on competency and guardianship hearings.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cSome judges will be very informal throughout a proceeding, and that will cause problems. (But Smith) makes a very clear switch from \u2018Hey everybody. How\u2019s it going?\u2019 to \u2018Okay, we\u2019re going to straighten this out.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Smith sees many first-timers in his courtroom and in the clerk\u2019s offices. He says that many Durham residents don\u2019t have money to hire a lawyer. He wants to help them represent themselves without overstepping legal boundaries.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIf you\u2019re not involved in the legal system, it\u2019s Greek to you,\u201d he says. \u201cWe can give them information and help them get something done and be a servant to \u2018em. Make \u2018em feel comfortable. Now we can\u2019t do your work for ya, but we can point you.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Despite his sweeping powers and the fact he\u2019s won reelection since he started 17 years ago, he remains largely unknown in the city.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Retired attorney Jay Freeman says most people don\u2019t know what any North Carolina clerk does.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a very important position,\u201d he says. \u201cIt affects more people, quite frankly, than a judge does.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The mediator<\/b><\/p>\n

Smith\u2019s office, tucked behind his personal courtroom on the second floor, is filled with an unusual mix of with trinkets and collectibles. A stuffed worm found in local tobacco plants, a Galileo thermometer, a paperback Guide to Texas Etiquette, and about 20 model cars.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

On his credenza, he keeps an 11-by-14 photo of Gregory Peck playing Atticus Finch in \u201cTo Kill a Mockingbird.\u201d He says the convictions and character make him a role model.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHe was trying to get to the truth,\u201d he says of the legendary character in the novel and film. \u201cIn order to get to the truth, he sacrificed a lot. He was representing an unpopular cause. His community, with his daughter there, and all his neighbors there. He could have been ostracized from his neighborhood.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Smith sighs. \u201cBut it was so important to him. I have to admire somebody like that.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

He thinks a lot about integrity when the hard cases come, and there have been a lot of them since that young teacher died.<\/span><\/p>\n

He sometimes has to keep parents from accessing their minor children\u2019s trust funds, even when they just want to pay a utility or buy their kids a Christmas gift. He recalls denying competency to an ingenious but deceitful man even though people were backing his independence.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

He often has to say \u201cno\u201d \u2013 and that\u2019s not always popular.<\/span><\/p>\n

Satana Deberry, the Durham district attorney, says Smith tries harder than anyone else to be a mediator at the courthouse.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cArchie is like \u2018hail fellow well met.\u2019 He has a classic Durham story that I don\u2019t think we see a lot anymore. He is the white kid who grew up poor in Durham, really has been working his whole life to get where he is,\u201d she says. \u201cI think he sees everybody on the other side of the counter the same way he sees himself. I don\u2019t think he makes any differentiation.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Lifelong Durhamite<\/b><\/p>\n

Smith was born at Duke University Hospital, delivered newspapers, and went to Durham High School, which is now just a memory. He recalls eating shaved ice from tall glasses in a Duke cafeteria and catching tadpoles in Dixie cups from the Duke Gardens. He\u2019s a lifelong Durhamite, and he\u2019s nostalgic about the past.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWell, Durham is home, gosh,\u201d he says.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

He recalls a \u201chappening\u201d Durham with full employment and prosperity. He says it was the envy of the Raleighites and Caryans, if you will.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThey don\u2019t have something that Durham has,\u201d he says. \u201cWe have a number of historic buildings that give a certain panache. The past tied to the future. Old warehouses and things, enough of that has been saved.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Many of his office trinkets point to Durham\u2019s past such as a nametag for his predecessor James Leo Carr, a key to the old courthouse vault, and some Ever Ready Oil to lubricate the key.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

His trinkets are \u201ca reminder of the way things used to be. And I like being about the way things used to be,\u201d he says.<\/span><\/p>\n

He romanticizes watching the film \u201cThe Spirit of St. Louis\u201d with his parents and younger brother at the Starlite Drive-In off Club Boulevard. But he says he likes the new, more avant-garde and pedestrian-friendly Durham, too.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWell, if you don\u2019t change, you\u2019re going to get lost.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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