The Impact of Melendez-Diaz on North Carolina (July 6, 2009)
Jeff Welty
I was on vacation last week, and the buzz around Melendez-Diaz — see this prior post for the basics — was partly drowned out by the sound of the waves […]
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July 6, 2009
I was on vacation last week, and the buzz around Melendez-Diaz — see this prior post for the basics — was partly drowned out by the sound of the waves […]
READ POST "The Impact of Melendez-Diaz on North Carolina (July 6, 2009)"July 1, 2009
I recently presented a case law update at the DAs’ conference, and there was a reasonable amount of interest in a case decided earlier this year by the Court of […]
READ POST "Removing Spectators from the Courtroom (July 1, 2009)"June 29, 2009
I previously posted about the Supreme Court’s decision in Caperton v. A.T. Massey Coal Company, the basic holding of which is that a judge must recuse him- or herself from […]
READ POST "More on Caperton and Recusals (June 29, 2009)"June 24, 2009
Shea Denning, who is the motor vehicle and DWI expert on the School of Government’s faculty, has read, re-read, and re-re-read State v. Fowler and State v. Palmer, the recent […]
READ POST "Analysis of DWI Procedures under Fowler and Palmer (June 24, 2009)"June 10, 2009
North Carolina has been all over the web recently. The News and Observer’s habitual felon article, which I discussed in a previous post, has made a splash on several of […]
READ POST "News Roundup (June 10, 2009)"June 9, 2009
Yesterday, the United States Supreme Court decided a case that could have been the subject of a John Grisham novel. The case is Caperton v. A.T. Massey Coal Company, and […]
READ POST "Excuse Me, Recuse You (June 9, 2009)"June 5, 2009
Editor’s note: A previous post concerning a United States Supreme Court case about post-conviction DNA testing appears here. Recently, I’ve been getting a lot of calls about requests for post-conviction […]
READ POST "Post-Conviction DNA Testing Heats Up (June 5, 2009)"May 21, 2009
The other day I posted my thoughts about the “Jacob Wetterling” provision in G.S. 14-208.12A. While that provision raises what I think are the most difficult questions related to petitions […]
READ POST "Petitions to Terminate Sex Offender Registration (Part II) (May 21, 2009)"May 20, 2009
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 […]
READ POST "DWI Appeal Procedures: Fowler and Palmer (May 20, 2009)"May 14, 2009
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 […]
READ POST "Petitions to Terminate Sex Offender Registration (May 14, 2009)"