…once that he was free to leave and return to his cell; the deputies were armed, but Fields remained free of restraints; the conference room door was sometimes open and…
…address these concerns is opening up September 9th. The intent of the North Carolina Elder Protection Network is to connect, inform, and support our public professionals who are working together…
…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…
