News Roundup
Yesterday afternoon, federal and state officials announced that 13 men had been arrested and charged with various criminal offenses arising from plots to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, kill law […]
Case Summaries – N.C. Court of Appeals (Oct. 6, 2020)
This post summarizes published criminal opinions by the North Carolina Court of Appeals released on October 6, 2020.
Conducting Surveillance and Collecting Location Data in a Post-Carpenter World, Part II
This post is the second in a series examining the impact of Carpenter v. United States, 585 U.S. ___, 138 S.Ct 2206 (2018) on electronic surveillance and the obtaining of […]
News Roundup
WLOS reported this week that the Macon County Sheriff’s Office has been identified as a COVID-19 cluster after multiple employees tested positive for the virus. In a statement posted to […]
Case Summaries — N.C. Supreme Court (September 25, 2020)
This post summarizes opinions issued by the North Carolina Supreme Court on September 25, 2020.
Conducting Surveillance and Collecting Location Data in a Post-Carpenter World, Part I
Two years have passed since the Supreme Court held in Carpenter v. United States, 585 U.S. ___, 138 S.Ct. 2206 (2018), that the government carried out a Fourth Amendment search […]
News Roundup
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died last Friday at her home in Washington at age 87. Ginsburg served on the Court for 27 years after being nominated by […]
Pills, Edibles, and Drug Mixtures in North Carolina: The Medium Matters
I recently taught on the basics of drug law in North Carolina and was reminded just what a tricky area it can be. Chapter 90 of the N.C. General Statutes […]
Lessons from the Alamance County Bail Litigation
A federal court Consent Order has been entered in the Alamance County bail litigation. The relief granted in that order and the county’s new local bail and first appearance policies […]
Satisfying Conditions of Pretrial Release When in Juvenile Detention
Two changes in the law have led to a new phenomenon—the need for youth under the age of 18 to satisfy conditions of pretrial release while being confined in a […]