News Roundup
Phil Dixon
A Fort Bragg solider stands accused of using confidential national security information to place lucrative bets on the ousting of former Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro. According to this article, the […]
Expert-Testimony Phrase Chart for Cases Involving Alleged Child Sexual Abuse
Daniel Spiegel
As I mentioned last month, Timothy Heinle and I are nearing completion of an updated Superior Court Judges’ Benchbook chapter on Evidence Issues in Criminal Cases Involving Child Victims and […]
Case Summaries: Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals (March 2026)
Phil Dixon
This post summarizes published criminal law and related cases released by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals during March 2026. Cases of potential interest to state practitioners are summarized monthly. […]
Case Summaries: N.C. Court of Appeals (April 15, 2026).
Joseph L. Hyde
This post summaries the published opinions in criminal cases issued by the North Carolina Court of Appeals on April 15, 2026. Sufficient evidence supported denying the defendant’s motion to dismiss […]
News Roundup
Jamie Markham
Iryna’s Law Studies. The North Carolina Collaboratory recently issued its Preliminary Report on the Intersection of Mental Health and the Justice Systems for both Adults and Juveniles in North Carolina, […]
Artificial Intelligence, Local Orders, and the Courts
Shea Denning
A few years ago, T-shirts and coffee mugs with the phrase “Please do not confuse your Google search with my law degree,” were making the rounds. What simpler times those […]
Time’s Arrow: Does McLymore’s Causal Nexus Requirement Have a Temporal Component?
Joseph L. Hyde
The statutory right to use deadly force in self-defense is not available to one who was committing a felony. G.S. 14-51.4(1). In State v. McLymore, 380 N.C. 185 (2022), the […]
Cyberstalking and Free Speech
Jeff Welty
In recent months, I have received several questions about what North Carolina’s cyberstalking statute covers and whether it may infringe on First Amendment free speech rights. This post addresses several […]
News Roundup
Shea Denning
The television series Friends was a staple of my young adult life. So in 2022 when Matthew Perry published his memoir, Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing, I was […]
Total Split Sentence Exposure, Revisited
Jamie Markham
In 2018, I wrote this post, https://nccriminallaw.sog.unc.edu/2018/11/28/total-split-sentence-exposure/, about split sentences, examining the total limit on split sentence incarceration that a judge can order at sentencing and as a later modification […]