…and other items connected with the robbery. Officer obtained a warrant and searched the interior of the car but could not open the trunk due a dead car battery. The…
…laws. Most often, those questions relate to the confidentiality of juvenile court records. When I first read the statute – G.S. 7B-3000 – I thought it was an open and…
…counsel planned to concede that he committed the murders. The defendant told counsel not to make the concession, and pressed counsel to pursue acquittal. Id. Nevertheless, during opening statements at…
…“…States may not impose sanctions on the publication of truthful information contained in official court records open to public inspection.” Soderberg Slip op. at 10 (citation omitted). That general rule…
…the State mentioned Sadie to the jury by name 12 times in its opening; by comparison, Mercadiez, the actual child this case was about, was mentioned 15. Even more concerning,…
…to recent shooting and homicides. The officers heard gunshots nearby and responded to the area where they believed the shots originated in less than a minute, an open area between…
…are presumptively open to the public under G.S. 132-1.4(k), which provides that “search warrants that have been returned by law enforcement agencies” are public records. Yet the statute also notes…
…Cir. 2009) (officers investigating allegations of unlawful bird trapping installed a motion-activated camera in the defendant’s open field; this did not implicate the Fourth Amendment, for while “[t]he idea of…
…involve an order denying bail and was resolved with the court’s conclusion that the procedure for setting Humphrey’s bail was constitutionally inadequate, the court did not resolve significant open questions…
…now also director of the program. The program, called the NC Racial Equity Network (NC REN), began with a competitive application process open to all North Carolina indigent defenders. Fifty…
