PDDs: Coming Soon to a Street Near You
What’s three feet long, two feet wide, weighs a few hundred pounds and can drive itself down a street or sidewalk to deliver cargo?
New Month Brings New Emergency Directives
The Chief Justice entered her first emergency order to address catastrophic conditions resulting from the COVID-19 outbreak on March 13, 2020. More than three months (and many orders) later, those […]
Upcoming Webinar: Building Elder Protection Networks in North Carolina
My colleagues Meredith Smith and Aimee Wall are hosting a webinar on Thursday, July 16, 2020, from 11:00 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. that will provide an overview of North Carolina’s […]
News Roundup
Three Wilmington police officers were fired on Wednesday after dash-cam footage from an officer’s patrol vehicle showed the officers engaging in racist conversations with each other, including one conversation that […]
Absconding Continues to Come into Focus
Almost ten years after the Justice Reinvestment Act established a new statutory definition of absconding from probation, we’re starting to get a better sense of what behavior does and does […]
Expunction Relief for “Doughnut Hole” Youth
Much of the conversation at one of the first Juvenile Jurisdiction Advisory Committee meetings I attended centered on “doughnut hole” youth. The meeting participants were discussing the long pause between […]
News Roundup
There was notable criminal law legislation in the General Assembly this week where lawmakers unanimously passed the North Carolina First Step Act and the Second Chance Act. As the News […]
Case Summaries – North Carolina Court of Appeals (June 16, 2020)
This post summarizes published criminal cases issued by the North Carolina Court of Appeals on June 16, 2020. As always, these summaries will be added to Smith’s Criminal Case Compendium, […]
Graphic Novels in Spanish
The School’s two graphic novels about how sentences are served have been translated into Spanish.
Summer 2020 Hemp Update
On Thursday, June 4, 2020, the North Carolina General Assembly passed S.B. 315, referred to as the State Farm Bill, which was subsequently signed into law by the Governor. The […]