News Roundup
A second mass shooting in the span of a week, this one killing 10 people at a Colorado grocery store, shook the nation on Monday. Those killed included the first […]
Biological Evidence in the Courtroom: Mandatory Judicial Inquiry
What comes to mind when you think about physical evidence that is also biological evidence? It might be a bloodstained shirt or the contents of a sexual assault examination kit. […]
Virtual Court Proceedings—North Carolina Court Actors Weigh In
During the COVID-19 pandemic, criminal court systems moved to virtual proceedings to maintain essential court operations while minimizing the spread of COVID-19. To understand more about that transition and the […]
News Roundup
A series of shootings in the Atlanta area that left eight people dead is the major criminal law news story of the week and has launched the issue of increasing […]
Case Summaries: N.C. Court of Appeals (Mar. 16, 2021)
This post summarizes published criminal decisions from the North Carolina Court of Appeals released on March 16, 2021. Gabrielle Supak and Christopher Tyner prepared these summaries. As always, they will […]
Case Summaries: Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals (Feb. 2021)
This post summarizes published criminal law and related decisions released by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in February, 2021, which may be of interest to state practitioners. Previous summaries […]
Case Summaries – N.C. Supreme Court (March 12, 2021)
This post summarizes criminal decisions released by the North Carolina Supreme Court on Friday, March 12, 2021.
Emergency Directives Renewed and Legislation Proposed to Permanently Authorize Remote Proceedings
Chief Justice Paul Newby issued an order on Friday, effective today, extending emergency directives currently in place for an additional thirty days to in light of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. […]
News Roundup
Trial began this week for Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer who killed George Floyd by kneeling on his neck for several minutes while arresting him for allegedly using […]
Business Records: Posts, Chats, and Texts
Several prior posts on this blog have addressed authenticating and admitting digital evidence like social media posts and text messages (see here, here, here, and here) and we’ve also previously […]