…Whether it’s viewed as a matter of due process, confrontation rights, equal protection under the law, or open access to our state’s courts, the ability to understand the words that…
…During this confrontation, the victim struck the defendant with a piece of lumber, causing the defendant to brandish a pistol he was carrying legally. The defendant did not threaten to…
…carry on legislative functions.” It went on to conclude that “Defendant’s First Amendment rights were not violated by the application of the legislative rules that support his conviction” because those…
…door was left open. An officer approached and asked the man to come out and speak with police before immediately stepping into the building through the open door. That officer…
…for vehicular traffic that are associated with places generally open to and used by the public, such as driveways and parking lots to institutions and businesses open to the public.”…
…any crime but by the unanimous verdict of a jury in open court. The General Assembly may, however, provide for other means of trial for misdemeanors, with the right of…
…definition, among them any parking lot upon the grounds of any “business, residential, or municipal establishment providing parking space whether the business or establishment is open or closed.” First, many…
…open to the public. In Hopper I, the court assumed arguendo that the street was not public, but concluded that since the officer reasonably believed that it was public, the…
…facility is one of two CRV centers that DAC opened last month. The other is in Burke County in Morganton, near the former Western Youth Institution. DAC reopened both sites…
…them, or to require their acceptance. Which category is North Carolina in? North Carolina’s statutes have seemed clear to me. G.S. 15A-1023(c) addresses “open” pleas, meaning the defendant pleads guilty…
