…have sufficient staff to serve only appointments, or that otherwise are unable to maintain normal operations due to the pandemic; Expand service hours at Driver License Offices that remain open;…
…analysis of the defendant’s blood and the alcohol concentration results memorialized in another analyst’s report. Id. What remained an open question. Until Smith, the Supreme Court had not yet decided…
…possible sentence and opened the plea up to a challenge? Since my prior post didn’t address this issue, I’ll do that now. G.S. 15A-1022(a)(6) provides that when taking a plea,…
…both cases, the experts appeared to merely be repeating opinions formed by non-testifying analysts. In light of this, I suggested that the door may still be open to testimony by…
…of Harris and Harvey, the Ventris decision is not surprising, but it settles an open question, one that had become more important in light of the Court’s recent expansion of…
…says that presidents typically are advised not to comment on pending criminal cases because doing so opens the door to arguments that the defendant will not receive a fair trial,…
…wounds to his right arm according to reports. Also on Tuesday, the FBI announced that it had opened a civil rights investigation into the incident. On Wednesday, pursuant to a…
…Riggs, then a judge on the Court of Appeals, to fill Justice Morgan’s seat. That, in turn, opened a seat on the Court of Appeals, to which the Governor appointed…
…a November 2018 ruling in open court, the record did not show any file stamp or entry by the clerk recording the order, leading the court to conclude it was…
