North Carolina Criminal Law

Tomorrow’s a holiday, and the blog is going on vacation next week, so this will be the last post of 2010. Before rounding up the news, I wanted to take […]

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State law requires the driver of a vehicle involved in a reportable accident to immediately notify the appropriate law enforcement agency of the crash. G.S. 20-166.1. A reportable accident is […]

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It’s been two weeks since the last news roundup, so there’s a lot to report: 1. Superior Court Judges Catherine Eagles and Ripley Rand have been confirmed by the Senate […]

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When a defendant introduces evidence at trial showing that the State has failed to prove some element of the crime, the strategy is sometimes described as a failure of proof […]

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The top story of the week is the controversy surrounding the new ban on electronic sweepstakes.  I posted about it yesterday, and after my initial post, the Attorney General issued […]

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I intended to have a deep, substantive post ready for today.  But in the press of holiday preparations, I didn’t complete it — and in any case, there’s been some […]

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The court of appeals issued a batch of opinions this week, at least two of which are absolutely fascinating and will be featured on this blog next week. But those […]

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As always, the past week has seen a tremendous amount of interesting criminal law news.  Nationally, the story that has drawn the most attention is the conclusion of the Stephen […]

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The biggest news of the past week was, of course, the election. Results for judicial and district attorney races are available here from the State Board of elections. (You have […]

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Normally, a law enforcement officer will attempt to develop reasonable suspicion before instructing a person to stop. But what if the officer does not have reasonable suspicion at that point, […]

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