A fatal officer involved shooting in Roxboro last Friday has been in the news this week, setting off several days of demonstrations in the city and generating divided opinions about…
…both cases, the experts appeared to merely be repeating opinions formed by non-testifying analysts. In light of this, I suggested that the door may still be open to testimony by…
Yesterday was opinion day at the court of appeals. And while it wasn’t officially designated as DWI opinion day, several of yesterday’s opinions resolve significant and recurring issues in DWI…
…the ruling, and appellate court opinions throughout the country are still proliferating. And so have our faculty’s blog posts: Jeff Welty has written relevant posts here, here, here, here, and…
…of appeals opinions in Ward’s wake have treated the sufficiency pronouncement as a new rule, explaining that expert testimony based on a scientifically valid chemical analysis generally is required to…
…perpetrator. Patriot Prayer. As this report from Reuters indicates, opinions about the ideology of Patriot Prayer are divided, though there is consensus that it is an outspoken conservative activist group….
…March for this double Tarheel. State v. Geisslercrain is among of yesterday’s batch of court of appeals opinions. (The court issued twenty-four published opinions yesterday—leading me to conclude that our…
This post summarizes the published criminal opinions from the North Carolina Court of Appeals released on February 20, 2024. These summaries will be added to Smith’s Criminal Case Compendium, a…
…time in ten years that the North Carolina Supreme Court has heard Batson challenges. In that time, the United States Supreme Court reinforced, in two significant Batson opinions, the standard…
…in North Carolina reference book as we know it. For many years, he wrote the North Carolina Prosecutor’s Trial Manual and summaries of North Carolina appellate opinions. Bob’s dedication and…
