News Roundup
Late last week Governor Roy Cooper’s office announced that he had commuted the sentences of three people who were sentenced to lengthy prison terms as teenagers and had served decades […]
Case Summaries – North Carolina Court of Appeals (March 15, 2022)
This post summarizes published criminal decisions from the North Carolina Court of Appeals released on March 15, 2022. These summaries will be added to Smith’s Criminal Case Compendium, a free […]
Case Summaries – Supreme Court of North Carolina (March 11, 2022)
This post summarizes criminal decisions released by the Supreme Court of North Carolina on March 11, 2022.
Case Summaries: Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals (Feb. 2022)
This post summarized published criminal and related decisions released by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals during February 2022. Decisions that may be of interest to state practitioners are summarized […]
News Roundup
As the Associated Press reports, countries around the world are calling for an investigation of whether Russia has committed war crimes during its invasion of Ukraine. In a joint press […]
Prosecuting Defendants in Bankruptcy
This post summarizes an unusual point of law that recently caught me by surprise, and it’s one which I don’t believe we’ve ever directly covered on the criminal law blog […]
News Roundup
As Reuters reports, this week Purdue Pharma and its owners the Sackler family agreed to pay $6 billion to resolve litigation brought by a group of state attorneys general related […]
Case Summaries – N.C. Court of Appeals (March 1, 2022)
This post summarizes published criminal decisions from the North Carolina Court of Appeals released on March 1, 2022. These summaries will be added to Smith’s Criminal Case Compendium, a free and […]
New Resource on Injury for Assault and Other Offenses
I am excited to announce the release of a new guide on Defining “Injury” for North Carolina Assault and Other Offenses.
News Roundup
As the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports, Travis McMichael, Greg McMichael, and William “Roddie” Bryan were convicted this week by a federal jury of hate crimes related to their murder of Ahmaud […]