North Carolina Criminal Law

Over the past few months I’ve been getting some really interesting questions about contempt. Disclaimer: The real experts on our faculty when it comes to contempt are John Saxon, Michael […]

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There’s lots of news these days about the Bernie Madoff case.  Apparently, he’s going to plead guilty today, without a plea agreement, exposing himself to a virtually certain life sentence.  […]

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According to a News and Observer story available here, MySpace has provided the Attorney General’s office with a list of 2,116 registered North Carolina sex offenders who were on MySpace.  […]

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The News and Observer ran a story recently — available here — about the length of time it takes to resolve murder cases in North Carolina. The average time to […]

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I’m more interested than the average person in the intersection between criminal law and emerging technologies.  Several blog-worthy stories in that area have developed over the last few days. First, […]

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The United States Supreme Court recently heard oral argument in the Osborne case, an Alaska case that asks whether a criminal defendant who claims that he has been wrongfully convicted […]

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I posted yesterday about one of the recent Court of Appeals decisions.  At the risk of going back to the well, I want to highlight another of those cases today. […]

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Further Update: The court has reissued an opinion in this case. On the issue discussed below, it is very similar — at a minimum — to the original opinion. Update: […]

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The Pew Center on the States just released a new report entitled One in 31: The Long Reach of American Corrections.  It’s available here, and a couple of news stories […]

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Because of a case currently pending in Gaston County — story here — several people have asked me about the law as it concerns scaring a person to death.  Let […]

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