News Roundup
The biggest news of the past week was, of course, the election. Results for judicial and district attorney races are available here from the State Board of elections. (You have […]
Can I Get a Remedy? Suppression of Chemical Analyses in Implied Consent Cases for Statutory Violations
Dan Defendant is charged with and arrested for driving while impaired. He is taken to a law enforcement center for administration of a chemical analysis. At 2:00 a.m., the chemical […]
Reasonable Suspicion Arising After An Officer’s Order to Stop
Normally, a law enforcement officer will attempt to develop reasonable suspicion before instructing a person to stop. But what if the officer does not have reasonable suspicion at that point, […]
United States Supreme Court to Review In re J.D.B.
I blogged here about In re J.D.B., a juvenile case in which the North Carolina Supreme Court held that a 13-year-old, questioned in an unlocked school conference room by police […]
Constructive Possession of Drugs
One of the most frequently litigated issues in North Carolina drug cases is constructive possession. Jeff wrote about one case (here) over a year ago. My research shows no less […]
News Roundup
In a previous news roundup, I posted an item about how to write like Chief Justice Roberts. But sometimes a negative example can be as useful as a positive one. […]
Technical Glitch re Email Subscription
If you signed up to receive email notifications of new posts — which you can do in the right-hand column on the front page of the blog — you may […]
Cultural Differences and Child Abuse
One of the clipping services to which I subscribe recently highlighted People v. Assad, __ Cal.Rptr.3d __, 2010 WL 4035491 (Cal. Ct. App. 3 Dist. Oct. 15, 2010). The defendant […]
Physical, Mental, or Sexual Abuse of a Minor for SBM Purposes
by School of Government faculty member Jamie Markham In an earlier post I wrote about the satellite-based monitoring (SBM) effective-date question resolved by the court of appeals in State v. […]
Showups Aren’t Lineups
When I first came to the School of Government, I picked a few small areas of law in which I hoped to develop some expertise. One of those areas was […]