Correctional Facilities Tour (West)
Next month the North Carolina Judicial College will sponsor a tour of four correctional facilities in western North Carolina.
What Happens When Prosecutors Stop Asking for Cash Bail?
Philadelphia’s recently elected district attorney implemented a No-Cash-Bail reform policy, providing that the district attorney’s office would stop asking for cash bail for defendants charged with 25 misdemeanor and felony […]
Do Expunctions Matter?
Intuitively, the answer seems obvious—a clean record should reduce reentry barriers for employment and other opportunities. Yet, data on the impact of expunctions is elusive because, by their nature, expunged […]
United States Supreme Court Rejects Another Challenge to Another Method of Lethal Injection But Leaves the Door Open to Future Litigation
The Supreme Court decided Bucklew v. Precythe today, rejecting a death row inmate’s challenge to Missouri’s single-drug execution protocol. Challenges to lethal injection are now 0-for-3 in the Supreme Court, […]
News Roundup
Late last week Special Counsel Robert Mueller submitted his report on the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election. Attorney General William Barr wrote a summary of the […]
A Case of Actual Absconding
A string of recent cases have shown what absconding isn’t. A case from the court of appeals this week gives us an example of what absconding is.
Appellate Bracketology
This March, you almost need a bracket to keep up with recent personnel changes in the state’s judicial branch. Not only were a handful of new appellate judges elected to […]
Juvenile Justice Changes in Federal Law
The Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 (JJDPA) is the central federal law that establishes core requirements for state juvenile justice systems. 34 USC §111. In return for […]
Is a Single Drug Sale from a Residence Enough to Support a Conviction for Maintaining a Dwelling?
Last week, the court of appeals decided State v. Miller, a case in which the defendant was convicted of maintaining a dwelling based almost entirely on the fact that he […]
News Roundup
A stunning and tragic mass shooting in New Zealand late last week is one of the biggest international criminal law news stories in recent memory. Last Friday, an Australian man […]