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		<title>News Roundup</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 13:02:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The state Senate passed its budget this week. It’s different from the Governor’s budget and also from the House budget, so nothing is final and there’s plenty of negotiation left to be done. But the Senate budget has quite a few noteworthy features. It would eliminate Prisoner Legal Services, instead giving inmates access to computer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are Mug Shots Public Records?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 13:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Editor's Note: My colleague Frayda Bluestein is the author of this post, which she wrote for the School of Government's blog about local government law. Because she's not a regular contributor to this blog, she's not set up in the software as an author, which is why it is posted under my name and picture. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The DSM V</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 15:52:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The American Psychiatric Association is about to release the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition, commonly abbreviated DSM-V and pronounced “DSM five.” This is important to criminal lawyers because mental health issues are litigated in so many criminal cases, and the DSM is the generally accepted authority on mental health diagnoses. By [...]]]></description>
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		<title>News Roundup</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 14:58:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There was lots of news this week about judges new and old, so let’s start with that, then move on to the rest: Jeff Hunt, until now the elected district attorney for district 29B (Henderson, Polke, and Transylvania counties), has been named a special superior court judge. Assistant district attorney Doug Pearson will be the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Edition of the Capital Case Law Handbook Now Available</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 14:44:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Welty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although the number of capitally-tried cases has declined in recent years, capital cases remain important, complex, and hotly contested. So I&#8217;m happy to announce that a new edition of the North Carolina Capital Case Law Handbook is now available. I&#8217;m the author, though the new edition is built upon the sturdy foundation of the previous [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Street Names and Nicknames</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 15:33:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Welty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Suppose that a murder defendant goes by the street name “Hit Man.” The prosecution wants the investigating officer to testify that she received a tip that “Hit Man” committed the crime, and that she knew that the defendant used the nickname “Hit Man.” Defense counsel moves to prohibit all references to the nickname during the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>News Roundup</title>
		<link>http://nccriminallaw.sog.unc.edu/?p=4253</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 10:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Certainly the most shocking story of the week comes from Cleveland, where Ariel Castro has been charged with abducting three women, sexually abusing them, and holding them captive for ten years. CNN has the basics here. One important legal question is whether Castro could be eligible for the death penalty, based on allegations that he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: My Beloved World</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 14:56:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Welty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently finished Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s autobiography, My Beloved World. It’s a terrific book and an interesting companion to another outstanding Supreme Court memoir, Justice Clarence Thomas’s My Grandfather’s Son. In a nutshell, My Beloved World traces Justice Sotomayor’s life from her early childhood in the Bronx through her confirmation as a federal district court [...]]]></description>
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		<title>News Roundup</title>
		<link>http://nccriminallaw.sog.unc.edu/?p=4243</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 13:13:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week, the General Assembly ratified SB 117, or Lily’s Law, which adds the following provision to the murder statute, G.S. 14-17: “For the purposes of this section, it shall constitute murder where a child is born alive but dies as a result of injuries inflicted prior to the child being born alive.” The bill [...]]]></description>
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		<title>News Roundup</title>
		<link>http://nccriminallaw.sog.unc.edu/?p=4232</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 11:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Welty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Potentially capital federal charges have been filed against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in connection with the Boston marathon bombings. The filing of charges led to an initial appearance – in the hospital – before a federal magistrate judge, who advised Tsarnaev of his Miranda rights in the course of the proceeding. (Investigators had not previously read him [...]]]></description>
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