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November 23, 2011
The Structured Sentencing Act permits judges to consolidate convictions for multiple felony offenses entered at the same time or multiple misdemeanor offenses entered in the same session of court and […]
READ POST "Consolidated Judgments and DWI (November 23, 2011)"November 22, 2011
I wrote recently about how the Justice Reinvestment Act changes North Carolina’s existing habitual felon law (you can read that post here). This post examines a new recidivist offender statute […]
READ POST "Habitual Breaking and Entering (November 22, 2011)"November 10, 2011
As part of the Justice Reinvestment project, analysts from the Council of State Governments (CSG) looked at how the habitual felon law is used in North Carolina. In general, the […]
READ POST "Changes to the Habitual Felon Law (November 10, 2011)"November 3, 2011
As I mentioned in a prior post, the Justice Reinvestment Act (S.L. 2011-192) creates a new set of “community and intermediate probation conditions” that can be ordered in any Structured […]
READ POST "Quick Dips (November 3, 2011)"October 25, 2011
When analysts from the Council of State Governments studied North Carolina’s sentencing laws and correctional system, one of their key findings was that revoked probationers account for a lot of […]
READ POST "Confinement in Response to Violations (CRV) and Limits on Probation Revocation Authority (October 25, 2011)"October 12, 2011
Under Structured Sentencing, there are two types of non-active sentences: community punishment and intermediate punishment. Intermediate punishment is supervised probation plus at least one of six specific conditions of probation […]
READ POST "Community Punishment and Intermediate Punishment (October 12, 2011)"October 5, 2011
Under existing law, the basic rules for where a sentence should be served are as follows: Misdemeanors, 90 days or less. If a sentence imposed for a misdemeanor is 90 […]
READ POST "Where to Serve a Sentence (October 5, 2011)"September 22, 2011
The Justice Reinvestment Act (S.L. 2011-192) creates a new program called Advanced Supervised Release (ASR). Through it, certain inmates will be eligible for release from prison before serving their minimum […]
READ POST "Advanced Supervised Release (September 22, 2011)"August 29, 2011
Every cell on the felony sentencing grid is divided into three ranges of permissible minimum sentences—mitigated, presumptive, and aggravated. Most defendants (69 percent) are sentenced in the presumptive range, about […]
READ POST "Spot Sentencing (August 29, 2011)"August 24, 2011
In addition to enacting the aggravated level one punishment for impaired driving discussed here, the 2011 General Assembly amended the requirements for imposing a Level One impaired driving sentence, effective […]
READ POST "DWI Sentencing Changes (August 24, 2011)"