This post summarizes opinions issued by the North Carolina Supreme Court on December 6, 2019. 1) A sex offense indictment that identified the child victim as “Victim #1” was fatally…
…The North Carolina Supreme Court issued an administrative order earlier this month that creates a new universal case citation for opinions issued by the state’s appellate courts, beginning January 1,…
…testified to their lay opinions that the substance was heroin, and field-tests showed the substance was heroin. This, the Supreme Court held, was sufficient to send the case to the…
…for sure. All the other opinions. Rahimi spawned all sorts of concurring opinions, many of which are essentially position statements on constitutional interpretation. They would be fantastic assigned texts for…
Whether there was probable cause to arrest the driver is a hotly litigated issue in cases involving impaired driving. Unfortunately, there aren’t all that many appellate opinions addressing the hard…
…incapacity. Finally, the Commission is responsible for issuing advisory opinions to judges about permissible judicial conduct. G.S. 7A-377(c). Commission staff issue 250-300 written informal advisory opinions each year. The Commission…
…at the School of Government actually are here to help you. We’re glad to answer questions from, and offer opinions to, anyone who is part of the criminal justice system….
…members, the families of gang members, and the gang’s victims.” Although it was proper for the experts to base their opinions on such interviews under Fed. R. Evid. 703, the…
…an unpublished case does. In State v. Younts, 794 S.E.2d 923 (2016) (unpublished), the defendant received a sentence of 17–30 months, suspended, with a 4-month split sentence imposed at sentencing….
…first impression for North Carolina. Before Jacobs, the closest direction we had from state courts on Rule 412 and STD evidence was an unpublished decision State v. McCray, 186 N.C….
