DWI Appeal Procedures: Fowler and Palmer
Two statutes enacted as part of the Motor Vehicle Driver Protection Act of 2006, G.S. 20-38.6 and 20-38.7, significantly altered district court procedures for implied consent offenses committed on or […]
May 14, 2009
Petitions to Terminate Sex Offender Registration
Under G.S. 14-208.12A, registered sex offenders who are not required to register for life can petition the superior court to terminate the registration requirement after 10 years. (The requirement to […]
May 11, 2009
GPS Tracking for Domestic Violence Offenders?
An interesting article in the New York Times, available here, talks about the increasing use of GPS tracking in domestic violence cases, either as a condition of pretrial release or […]
May 8, 2009
Magistrates Appointing Counsel?
Last term, the United States Supreme Court decided Rothgery v. Gillespie County, available here. As most folks likely know, before Rothgery, North Carolina law held that a defendant’s Sixth Amendment […]
May 7, 2009
Breathalyzer Source Code
Once again, my interest in criminal law and my interest in technology have come together in a brewing legal controversy. The issue is whether a DWI defendant who has submitted […]
May 6, 2009
Preliminary Hearings on Probation Violations
Under G.S. 15A-1345(c), a preliminary hearing on a probation violation must be held within seven working days of a probationer’s arrest to determine whether there is probable cause to believe […]
April 23, 2009
No Probable Cause?
One of the things I do as Defender Educator is design CLEs for public defenders and private assigned counsel. In an effort to plan top-notch programs, I meet from time […]
April 13, 2009
The Budget and Court-Appointed Experts
A Chicago Tribune article, available here, states that an Illinois public defender recently moved to prohibit the state from seeking the death penalty against her client because the state does […]
April 9, 2009
Charges? What Charges?
In 2007, legislative action designed to stiffen penalties for drivers charged with speeding followed close on the heels of the “Speed Unlimited” series published in the News and Observer in […]
April 7, 2009
Rivera v. Illinois and “Reverse Batson”
In Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79 (1986), the Supreme Court held that prosecutors could not exercise peremptory challenges based on race. In Georgia v. McCollum, 505 U.S. 42 (1992), […]
Subscribe
Categories
Blog Authors
- Maggie Bailey
- Brittany Bromell
- Emily Coward
- Alexander Cowell
- Melanie Crenshaw
- Michael Crowell
- Shea Denning
- Sara DePasquale
- Phil Dixon
- James Drennan
- Belal Elrahal
- Whitney Fairbanks
- Bob Farb
- Rebecca Fisher-Gabbard
- Jacquelyn Greene
- Alyson Grine
- Timothy Heinle
- Jonathan Holbrook
- Joseph L. Hyde
- Kirsten Leloudis
- Caitlin Little
- Ian Mance
- Jamie Markham
- Chris McLaughlin
- Kristi Nickodem
- Alex Phipps
- M. Jeanette Pitts
- LaToya Powell
- Ethan Rex
- John Rubin
- Jessica Smith
- Meredith Smith
- Daniel Spiegel
- Tom Thornburg
- Hannah Turner
- Christopher Tyner
- Jeffrey Welty