North Carolina Criminal Law

Local jails are an important part of the state’s criminal justice system. Jails house, among others, individuals held pretrial, serving sentences, and held for federal and other authorities. In this […]

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The Charlotte Observer reported this week that a majority of the inmates at Neuse Correctional Institution in Goldsboro and at least eight staff members at the facility have tested positive […]

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This post summarizes an opinion issued by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 20, 2020, and opinions issued by the Court of Appeals of North Carolina on […]

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After former Chief Justice Mark Martin’s North Carolina Commission on the Administration of Law and Justice issued its final report recommending that North Carolina embark on bail reform pilot projects, […]

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Last month, the NC Judicial College offered our first criminal legal update via Zoom. Many of you tuned in and said you liked it. So we followed up two weeks […]

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As ABC 11 reports, four inmates at Butner Correctional Institution have died in recent days from COVID-19.  Over last weekend, Charles Richard Rootes, Gary Edward Nixon, and Andre Williams died […]

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Because of the state holiday on Friday, there will not be a News Roundup this week but we have a job announcement that may interest blog readers. The School of […]

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This post summarizes published criminal decisions from the North Carolina Court of Appeals decided on April 7, 2020.

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This post summarizes the published criminal cases from the North Carolina Supreme Court issued on April 3, 2020, and two decisions from the United States Supreme Court issued on April […]

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Chief Justice Cheri Beasley entered an order last Thursday, April 2, 2020, imposing emergency directives that were immediately effective and that affect criminal cases. Legal authority. The Chief Justice’s order […]

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