…of Appeals disagreed. A “sexual act” for the purposes of a sexual offense includes the penetration, however slight, by any object into the genital or anal opening of another person’s…
In September, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a significant decision affecting the hemp industry on the federal level. There has been an open question for some time regarding…
As the New York Times reports, prosecutors have opened investigations of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo after the state attorney general released a report this week concluding that Cuomo had…
…opening statements, then raised the defect; the trial judge dismissed the case; the prosecution charged the defendant again, in a proper indictment; the Court saw no double jeopardy problem, finding…
…to address delays in the performance of autopsies, especially in drug overdose cases, a new center has opened in the bottom of a hospital in Monroe, NC. Union County took…
…most clearly in the establishment of dedicated CRV centers, which I wrote about here when the centers opened for business in 2015. Today, North Carolina has two CRV centers for…
I haven’t figured out the punch line to this joke. It was my opening line for a traffic stops session taught last month in the special topics seminar, Race Issues…
…by friends or family members. Some defendants seek to have an attorney appointed; others ask for a continuance. Some plead guilty in open court, and others submit a waiver of…
…In G.S. 14-27.20(4), sexual act is defined as cunnilingus, fellatio, analingus, anal intercourse, or the penetration of any object into the genital or anal opening of another person’s body, but…
…announced the impending opening of the Black Mountain Residential Substance Abuse Treatment Center for Women. According to the announcements, the center will offer a program similar to the 90-day program…
