North Carolina Criminal Law

This post provides summaries of the criminal cases (and one juvenile case) decided by the court of appeals on September 17, 2019.

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Editor’s Note: This post was written by Professor Jessica Smith and graduate research assistant Ross Hatton. Charged with identifying best practices and offering recommendations on how policing practices can promote […]

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As the Charlotte Observer reports, former North Carolina Supreme Court Chief Justice I. Beverly Lake Jr. died on Thursday after a period of deteriorating health.  The Observer report notes that […]

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Suppose I told you that we could categorize defendants into six categories for risk of failure to appear (FTA) in court as required, with 1 being the lowest risk category […]

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At the time of writing Hurricane Dorian was approaching the North Carolina coast and many communities were under evacuation orders.  The Department of Public Safety’s storm information website, listing evacuation […]

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This post summarizes decisions published during August 2019 by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals that are of interest to state practitioners.

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This post provides summaries of the opinions of the North Carolina Court of Appeals from September 3, 2019.

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Three former Buncombe County officials and one former county employee who previously pleaded guilty to corruption charges were sentenced this week in federal court in Asheville.  As WLOS reports, former […]

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Session Law 2019-186, enacted on August 1, 2019, put the finishing touches on the new law that will raise the age of juvenile court jurisdiction in North Carolina beginning on […]

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This week North Carolina was in the national news after Governor Roy Cooper vetoed a bill that would have required sheriffs to cooperate with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainer […]

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