…I explain below. Round 1: the State argues the good faith exception. The State’s first move will be to argue that such searches were conducted in good faith reliance on…
…student Faith Hedgepeth in 2012, and, farther back, the killings of student body president Eve Carson of UNC and graduate student Abhijit Mahato of Duke in 2008. Terrible for the…
There have been several sad and frightening stories in the news recently, from the apparent murder of UNC undergraduate Faith Hedgepeth, to the ice cream truck operator charged with being…
…policies regarding recordings. Keep reading for more news. DNA Sketch. A few weeks ago the News Roundup noted that the 2012 murder of UNC student Faith Hedgepeth remains unsolved. This…
…must show bad faith. The trial court erred by concluding that destruction of the footage warranted dismissal, regardless of bad faith on the part of the State. The court of…
…possession of defendant’s cell phone could consent to its search; loss of body cam video was not bad-faith destruction of evidence; convictions for witness tampering and obstruction of evidence did…
…site information” from November 13, 2012 through December 12, 2012.) Even if the officers had violated the Fourth Amendment by obtaining CSLI without a warrant, they acted in good faith,…
…faith” exception to the exclusionary rule can be applied to “save” pre-Gant vehicle searches incident to arrest that were conducted in good faith reliance on what appeared to be settled…
…about Davis. First, will North Carolina’s appellate courts follow Davis, or will they reject this good faith exception as they rejected the Leon good faith exception for reliance on a…
…would have found that Leon good-faith did not save the warrant. [Author’s note: North Carolina courts do not recognize the Leon good-faith exception for constitutional violations.] Vehicle search justified by…
