Obtaining Medical Records in DWI Cases
When a person suspected of driving while impaired is involved in a crash and receives medical treatment, the State may wish to obtain the person’s medical records for use in […]
News Roundup
On Tuesday, officials in Winston-Salem held a press conference announcing coordinated efforts to deter gun violence in the city. As the Winston-Salem Journal reports, there were more homicides in Winston […]
Case Summaries – N.C. Court of Appeals (1/21/2020)
This post summarizes opinions issued by the Court of Appeals of North Carolina on January 21, 2020.
Commission Recommends Changes to DWI Laws and Correctional Policies
The North Carolina Sentencing and Policy Advisory Commission released last November a report recommending several changes to the state’s impaired driving laws and correctional policies. The report marked the culmination […]
Defending Death by Distribution Cases
Shea blogged about the new crimes of death by distribution and aggravated death by distribution in G.S. 14-18.4, here. These crimes hit the books this past December, and 2020 will […]
News Roundup
As the New York Times reports, Attorney General William Barr said this week that a shooting at a naval air station in Pensacola, Florida, last month was an act of […]
More on Efforts to Reduce Impaired Driving
This is not the first (and likely will not be the last) blog post about research findings and strategies to reduce impaired driving. A few months ago, I wrote about […]
A Conditional Discharge Is Not a Conviction for Purposes of the Federal Felon-in-Possession Law
In United States v. Smith, 939 F.3d 612 (4th Cir. 2019), the Fourth Circuit held that a defendant who received a conditional discharge for a prior felony was not “convicted” […]
The Rules When There Are No Rules
In this blog post from 2012, Professor Jessica Smith summarized Rules of Evidence 101 and 1101, which together dictate that the rules of evidence apply to “all actions and proceedings […]
Case Summaries: Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals – December, 2019
This post summarizes criminal and related decisions published by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in December, 2019. Decisions of interest to state practitioners will be posted on a monthly […]