This post summarizes the published criminal opinions from the North Carolina Court of Appeals released on June 4, 2024. These summaries will be added to Smith’s Criminal Case Compendium, a…
The court of appeals issued a new batch of opinions today. They’re available in full here, and Jessie just sent summaries out to the listserv. (If you haven’t joined the…
This post summarizes the published criminal opinions from the North Carolina Court of Appeals released on January 15, 2025. These summaries will be added to Smith’s Criminal Case Compendium, a…
…the latest in a series of opinions placing the substance of a pleading over its form. I have already mentioned State v. Brice, which, like Newborn, required the Court to…
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…
