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The big news of the week was the election, with most media coverage focused on the change to the balance of power in Congress. This is not a political blog, […]

There are over 200 available beds at the DART Center. No wait. Today’s post talks about that and other things we learned on a recent visit to Goldsboro. Last week, […]

In September, the North Carolina Sentencing and Policy Advisory Commission published the Driving While Impaired Convictions Statistical Report for Fiscal Year 2025 (hereinafter “the report”). The report provided detailed information […]

It is election season, so anything related to voting is big news. WRAL reports here that “[f]ederal prosecutors are accusing 18 people of being immigrants who illegally voted in North […]

In 2024, the United States Sentencing Commission amended the Federal Sentencing Guidelines to restrict the use of acquitted conduct. Under new U.S.S.G. § 1B1.3(c), relevant conduct “does not include conduct […]

Can court records of juvenile delinquency adjudications be used to determine conditions of pretrial release in criminal cases? This question has come up more frequently since the requirement to consider […]

A new analysis of federal arrest data found that arrests for low-level offenses increased in 2025 even as violent crime rates continued to fall nationwide. According to the report, arrests […]

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

This week in Minnesota, federal agents searched the home of Representative Ilhan Omar. It appears that the basis for the search warrant related to immigration issues, as the search was […]

This post summarizes the published criminal opinions from the North Carolina Court of Appeals released on October 7, 2026. Appeal as to purported errors in the jury instructions on self-defense […]