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Welcome back to the Friday News Roundup. It’s been an interesting week for criminal law news. Without further ado, here are a few of the top stories: Raleigh considers curfew […]

The 2026 Appropriations Act created a new district court district, effective January 1, 2027, by splitting current District 5, a four-county district consisting of Duplin, Jones, Onslow, and Sampson Counties, into Districts […]

This post summarizes published criminal opinions from the Supreme Court of North Carolina released on August 14, 2026. The court released twelve such opinions on that day, some quite lengthy. […]

This post summarizes criminal law and related cases released by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals during July of 2026. Cases of potential interest to state practitioners are summarized monthly. […]

I was on vacation last week. I spent part of my time reading Carlos Barragan’s book The Yahoo Boys. Barragan is a Spanish journalist. His mother, a successful dentist, fell […]

Kim Kardashian’s Calabasas mansion was broken into on Sunday, and police have arrested a suspect, per this story from NBC and USA Today. Officers with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s […]

Today’s post addresses a small (and admittedly mundane) thing that trips people up from time to time. What happens when an appealed probationary sentence comes back to the trial court […]

A defendant’s simultaneous possession of multiple guns will generally support only one conviction for possession of a firearm by a felon. In State v. Phelps, No. COA25-934 (June 3, 2026), […]

This post summarizes the published criminal opinions from the North Carolina Court of Appeals released on August 5, 2026. No Fourth Amendment violation where law enforcement seized bloody shirt from […]

Last week’s News Roundup noted the story of a Charlotte-Mecklenburg officer accused of illegally accessing Flock camera data. According to these reports, at least 20 law enforcement officers in Georgia […]