…plea, the defendant agreed to accept responsibility for the accident in open court and pay the court costs in exchange for a PJC disposition. Around six years later in 2020,…
…for use in executions. The increasing scarcity of lethal injection drugs has become a significant hurdle to carrying out executions. Police Chief Pushes Treatment Rather Than Arrest. The News and…
Just about anyone who was a student at Carolina in 1995 remembers where they were on January 26 of that year when they heard that a gunman carrying a World-War-II-era…
…went through ten months of jury selection, and has been in the evidentiary phase of the trial since opening statements last year. The case has had multiple twists and turns…
…with organizations that provide charitable and social services. Essential businesses may remain open. While non-essential business and operations were ordered to cease all but “minimum basic operations,” some business were…
…his 40th birthday when airport staff found a bag containing bullets in the couple’s carry-on luggage. The couple was arrested and charged with possession of ammunition, and authorities seized their…
…to focus on criminal justice policy, she will not be summarizing cases anymore, but several of us will collaboratively carry on the service. We will continue to send the summaries…
…records, how frequently this kind of testimony will be offered by the State and how much weight it will carry with the jury is an open question, but Smith notes…
…could verify his story,” and the defendant produced the phone. The officer opened Facebook Messenger and confirmed that the defendant had been messaging his daughter. Then, without further discussion, the…
…“tug of war” over child represented substantial risk of physical injury; trial court reasonably exercised discretion when denying motion to reopen voir dire; trial court erred by requiring defendant to…
