…the borders of North Carolina opens to the public on April 20, 2024 (the date is not a coincidence, as this N&O article notes). Any adult 21 or older will…
…dog to the storage facility, which was a climate-controlled building with storage units opening off an indoor hallway, and got the consent of the facility’s owner to walk the dog…
…were complaining about the brutal temperatures, which regularly pushed into the — gasp! — high 70s. Anyhow, reading the Toronto papers was an eye-opener, especially this article about an infamous…
…where such mechanisms as open file discovery, see G.S. 15A-903, and a motion for a bill of particulars exist. Slip. op. 42, n. 16. When must defendants challenge indictments to…
…after Melendez-Diaz. Again, these statutes provide a vehicle for obtaining a constitutional waiver of confrontation rights. But prosecutors have to open the gift to realize its benefits. As a refresher,…
…Court rules that the Second Amendment applies to the states, that will open the door to Second Amendment challenges to an array of state and local firearm regulations. An example…
…of Government seeking new faculty member to work with defenders. Finally, in case you didn’t see John Rubin’s post announcing his shift into half-time work and the resulting opening on…
…lawful after defendant’s impaired driving arrest because “[i]t was reasonable to believe that the car might contain one or more bottles of open liquor or drugs”) United States v. Martinez,…
…to apply the beyond-a-reasonable-doubt standard to her contempt conviction was likewise rejected. The trial court announced in open court its use of that standard but failed to check the appropriate…
…open cell phone and observed on the display screen an image of [the defendant] smoking what appeared to be a marijuana blunt . . . the officer kept the phone,…
