…for a detainee who would not be assigned to the general jail population. Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Alito each wrote concurring opinions to emphasize that exceptions to the Court’s…
…Monday may not be worth the trouble. Readers who know more than I do about civil procedure, feel free to weigh in with better informed opinions. In other news: Sweepstakes…
…of the state supreme court. The gist of the piece is that the court is hearing very few cases and the justices are writing very few opinions. By contrast, the…
…Two recent court of appeals opinions hold that that a witness be qualified as an expert before testifying about the results of a horizontal gaze nystagmus test. What is HGN?…
…for 12 months. Among the opinions issued this week by the North Carolina Court of Appeals was Lee v. Gore, a case in which the court held that DMV lacked…
…a customer or employee might later come upon it.” Quarles has been cited in 10 opinions of our appellate courts. Here’s a reasonably representative sample: State v. Hewson, 182 N.C….
…opinion, I am troubled by its reliance on the so-called juvenile Miranda rules as a basis for the regulation of lawyers’ professional conduct. The proposed opinion’s basis for importing the…
…that the argument does not address the victim’s family’s opinions about the defendant or the crime. Prevatte, 356 N.C. at 269. Display or Use of Evidence. Items that were introduced…
…none until November. (The calendar of argument days this Term is here.) It will start issuing opinions around the end of the year, and will continue until June of next…
…“It’s testimonial, stupid.” Nearly everyone is having a difficult adjustment to the new confrontation clause regime after the U.S. Supreme Court’s Crawford decision and its barrage of opinions since that…
