News Roundup
A North Carolina man, Floyd Ray Roseberry, caused the evacuation of buildings near the United States Capitol yesterday after parking his truck on the sidewalk outside the Library of Congress […]
August 19, 2021
Case Summaries: N.C. Court of Appeals (August 17, 2021)
This post summarizes published criminal decisions from the North Carolina Court of Appeals released on August 17, 2021. As always, these summaries will be added to Smith’s Criminal Case Compendium, […]
August 13, 2021
News Roundup
WCNC reports that the Mecklenburg County Courthouse was closed all of this week because of a covid outbreak among employees. All sessions of district and superior court were rescheduled. The […]
August 6, 2021
News Roundup
As the New York Times reports, prosecutors have opened investigations of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo after the state attorney general released a report this week concluding that Cuomo had […]
July 30, 2021
News Roundup
As the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports, Robert Aaron Long pleaded guilty this week to four counts of murder arising from a series of shootings he committed earlier this year in the […]
July 29, 2021
Announcing North Carolina Court Appearance Project
The UNC School of Government Criminal Justice Innovation Lab and The Pew Charitable Trusts and invite North Carolina jurisdictions to apply to participate in the NC Court Appearance Project. Pew […]
July 27, 2021
Raise the Age and Enforcement of Domestic Violence Protective Orders and Civil No-Contact Orders
The Juvenile Justice Reinvestment Act and its subsequent corresponding legislation raised the age of juvenile jurisdiction to 18 for most offenses committed at ages 16 or 17 that would otherwise […]
July 23, 2021
News Roundup
As NPR reports, a coalition of state attorneys general announced this week that they had reached a $26 billion settlement agreement with drug distributors and Johnson & Johnson for their […]
July 20, 2021
Case Summaries – Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals (June 2021)
This post summarizes published criminal and related decisions issued by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in June 2021 that may be of interest to state practitioners.
July 20, 2021
The Judicial Standards Commission and Judicial Discipline
Judgeships in North Carolina’s trial and appellate courts are elected offices. Thus, it often is said that the ballot box is the mechanism for holding the state’s judicial officials accountable. […]
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