Smart Guns (May 6, 2014)
Jeff Welty
On balance, Americans like freedom, choices, and guns. It would seem to follow that Americans would support a free market that gives us an array of choices among guns. Yet […]
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May 6, 2014
On balance, Americans like freedom, choices, and guns. It would seem to follow that Americans would support a free market that gives us an array of choices among guns. Yet […]
READ POST "Smart Guns (May 6, 2014)"May 2, 2014
Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling made some racist remarks to his girlfriend, she recorded them, and they were leaked on the internet. This appears likely to cost Sterling the […]
READ POST "News Roundup (May 2, 2014)"April 25, 2014
Another North Carolina case is headed to the Supreme Court. The latest grant of certiorari is in Heien v. North Carolina, the burned-out brake light case in which the state […]
READ POST "News Roundup (April 25, 2014)"April 17, 2014
I’ve been enjoying WRAL’s website lately. The News and Observer is putting more content behind a paywall, and WRAL has had a series of interesting criminal justice stories. The most […]
READ POST "News Roundup (April 17, 2014)"April 11, 2014
Unquestionably the most shocking story of the week comes from Wake County, where an assistant district attorney’s father was kidnapped, apparently at the behest of an inmate the prosecutor had […]
READ POST "News Roundup (April 11, 2014)"April 9, 2014
As a criminal lawyer, Durham resident, and Duke alumnus, I followed the Duke lacrosse case with more than a casual interest. Now, years after the fact, there’s a new book […]
READ POST "New Book on Mike Nifong and the Duke Lacrosse Case (April 9, 2014)"April 4, 2014
WRAL just published this fascinating story, about North Carolina prisoners’ access to reading materials, the grounds on which access to reading materials can be denied – such as that the […]
READ POST "News Roundup (April 4, 2014)"March 28, 2014
The top story of the week concerns Patrick Cannon, who was the mayor of Charlotte until he was arrested Wednesday on federal corruption charges. He resigned his post, as the […]
READ POST "News Roundup (March 28, 2014)"March 25, 2014
I’ve been married to a man for sixteen years. That makes me an expert in men’s dress. If the occasion is formal—an important meeting at work, a cocktail party, a […]
READ POST "The Way These Women Dress Is Criminal (March 25, 2014)"March 21, 2014
I’m traveling today so I’ll round up the news a bit more briefly than usual: Court of appeals remands lethal injection case. The News and Observer reports here that the […]
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