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April 24, 2015

News Roundup

Jeff Welty

Durham native Loretta Lynch was confirmed yesterday as the nation’s first female African-American Attorney General. I believe that she is only the second female Attorney General, after Janet Reno. WRAL […]

April 23, 2015

Nystagmus in the Courts

Shea Denning

Jurisprudence over whether officers may testify about defendants’ horizontal gaze nystagmus (HGN) in impaired driving trials has failed to follow a smooth path. In fact, one could fairly note that […]

April 17, 2015

News Roundup

Jeff Welty

Partisan judicial elections may be returning to North Carolina. House Bill 8, which passed its second reading with a 64-49 vote, mostly along party lines, would make appellate court elections […]

April 10, 2015

News Roundup

Jeff Welty

Around here, the biggest news item this week was the shooting of Walter Scott by North Charleston, South Carolina police officer Michael Slager. Scott, who is black, ran from a […]

April 8, 2015

Sex Crime Tiers under Federal Law

Jamie Markham

Like most states, North Carolina has not substantially implemented the federal Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA). (Only 17 states have.) Nevertheless, some portions of the federal law wind […]

April 2, 2015

News Roundup

Shea Denning

Friday is a University holiday, so we’re rounding the news up one day early this week. Despite the short week, there is plenty of criminal law news to report.

March 27, 2015

News Roundup

Jeff Welty

195 new bills were filed in the North Carolina Senate yesterday, the deadline for filing new bills in that chamber this session. I haven’t reviewed all the new bills – […]

March 20, 2015

News Roundup

Jeff Welty

I’ve had a couple of inquiries about this WRAL story, which begins: “A Charlotte man who stands at his front door naked is upsetting his neighbors, but police say he […]

March 19, 2015

New Crimes Supplement Now Available

Jeff Welty

North Carolina Crimes is one of the School of Government’s most indispensable criminal law titles. The latest and greatest annual supplement to the book is now available. The new cumulative supplement covers legislation […]