This post summarizes the published criminal opinions from the North Carolina Court of Appeals released on September 12, 2023. These summaries will be added to Smith’s Criminal Case Compendium, a…
…principles and the facts particular to an incident,” rather than their own personal opinions and biases.” Id. Transparency and openness about rules and how decisions are made also support the…
…Charlotte, and negligent training against the city. In addition to the bodycam evidence and depositions of the officers, each party obtained experts to offer opinions on the reasonableness of the…
…redundant if you’ve made it this far through this post. Of course, reading the opinions themselves — or at least the syllabi — is the way to go if you…
…that crime has fallen because incarceration has risen. 2. The Supreme Court of the United States completed its October Term 2010 with a flurry of opinions and certiorari grants. If…
…such cases is markedly different. In two of the opinions relied upon by Williams, the state courts readily concluded that the defendant freely and voluntarily submitted to testing and that…
In its last batch of opinions, issued May 23, 2024, the North Carolina Supreme Court decided two indictment cases: State v. Singleton, No. 318PA22, __ N.C. __ (2024), and State…
It was a busy week at the U.S. Supreme Court. Among other things, the Justices issued the two Miranda opinions Jeff wrote about yesterday and heard oral argument in two…
There’s a new batch of opinions from the court of appeals today. One is State v. Reavis, a case that raises a question I’ve been asked several times recently in…
This post summarizes the published criminal opinions from the Supreme Court of North Carolina released on December 16, 2022. These summaries will be added to Smith’s Criminal Case Compendium, a…