New Publication Regarding Sexual Assault Cases
From time to time, a judge, prosecutor, or defense attorney will call the School of Government asking about the law of sexual assualts in, say, 1968. Typically, the caller will […]
July 9, 2009
Child Pornography Sentencing
There’s a tremendous debate going on over child pornography sentencing in the federal courts. In a number of high-profile cases, judges have imposed sentences well below what the federal sentencing […]
June 30, 2009
Unsatisfactory Termination of Probation
What does it mean for a probationer to be terminated “unsatisfactorily” or “unsuccessfully”? From what I understand it’s a notation that the Division of Community Corrections (DCC) uses to indicate […]
June 23, 2009
State v. Bare and Satellite-Based Monitoring
I’m in Asheville for the next few days, but I wanted to write briefly about an important case decided by the Court of Appeals last week. In State v. Bare, […]
June 18, 2009
Go Directly to Jail (or Is It Prison?)
Last week the News and Observer ran an article about a legislative proposal to send more inmates to county jails instead of DOC facilities. A separate part of the plan […]
June 15, 2009
DWI for the Whole Family
My wife reads celebrity gossip magazines, and one she brought home recently featured a couple who (a) apparently like to hit the nightspots (not necessarily with one another) and (b) […]
June 11, 2009
Concurrent and Consecutive Sentences Upon Revocation of Probation
Under G.S. 15A-1344(d), a “sentence activated upon revocation of probation commences on the day probation is revoked and runs concurrently with any other period of probation, parole, or imprisonment to […]
June 2, 2009
Consecutive Sentences for Misdemeanors (a Quiz!)
by School of Government faculty members Jamie Markham and Alyson Grine Suppose Ronald is convicted of six counts of communicating threats, a Class 1 misdemeanor. Ronald has three prior convictions, […]
May 29, 2009
Restitution and Civil Judgments
Last week the court of appeals decided State v. Swann, concluding (among other things) that a prosecutor’s statement alone is insufficient to support a restitution award. A lot of recent […]
May 22, 2009
Popp and PJCs
Editor’s note: Today’s post discusses a recent case about the unique-to-North-Carolina phenomenon of Prayer for Judgment Continued, or PJC. For a terrific earlier post about PJCs — it’s the single […]
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