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In recent months, I have received several questions about what North Carolina’s cyberstalking statute covers and whether it may infringe on First Amendment free speech rights. This post addresses several […]

The television series Friends was a staple of my young adult life. So in 2022 when Matthew Perry published his memoir, Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing, I was […]

In 2018, I wrote this post, https://nccriminallaw.sog.unc.edu/2018/11/28/total-split-sentence-exposure/, about split sentences, examining the total limit on split sentence incarceration that a judge can order at sentencing and as a later modification […]

Several chapters in the criminal law and evidence sections of the Superior Court Judges’ Benchbook recently have been updated. Among those chapters is Indictments, written by Joe Hyde, which begins by noting […]

Federal prosecutors moved to dismiss charges against former Louisville officers Joshua Jaynes and Kyle Meany, who had been accused of falsifying the warrant that preceded the 2020 police raid in […]

This post summarizes the published criminal opinions from the North Carolina Supreme Court released on March 20, 2026. Circumstantial evidence was sufficient to submit robbery with a dangerous weapon to […]

Today, we want to highlight one of the people who truly brings the School of Government’s mission to life. After more than 30 years of service to the UNC School […]

A five-year investigation by the New York Times has uncovered extensive evidence that famous civil-rights leader Cesar Chavez engaged in a pattern of sexually abusing young girls and women. Several […]

I am excited to announce that I have published a bulletin on Iryna’s Law and Pretrial Release. The bill under which it was enacted, Session Law 2025-93 (HB 307), made […]

The AP reports that yesterday, “[a] former Army National Guard member who had spent eight years in prison for attempting to aid the Islamic State opened fire on a classroom […]