Case Summaries — Supreme Court of North Carolina (June 11, 2021)
This post summarizes criminal decisions released by the Supreme Court of North Carolina on June 11, 2021.
Case Summaries: N.C. Court of Appeals (Apr. 6, 2021)
This post summarizes published criminal decisions from the North Carolina Court of Appeals released on April 6, 2021. As always, these summaries will be added to Smith’s Criminal Case Compendium, […]
Acting Indirectly
I was recently updating a list of review questions for a course on larceny offenses when I came across a version of this scenario: a woman tells her friend that […]
News Roundup
The deadly attack on the United States Capitol by extremist supporters of President Donald Trump continues to dominate the national news this week as federal and state law enforcement agencies […]
News Roundup
Readers no doubt already are aware of the criminal law news of this sad week in America where President Donald Trump is being blamed for inciting extremist political supporters to […]
Case Summaries: N.C. Court of Appeals (Dec. 31, 2020)
This post summarizes published criminal decisions from the North Carolina Court of Appeals released on December 31, 2020. The summaries were prepared by Shea Denning, Jamie Markham, Chris Tyner, Gabrielle […]
Case Summaries – N.C. Court of Appeals (Oct. 20, 2020)
This post summarizes opinions issued by the Court of Appeals of North Carolina on October 20, 2020.
Conducting Surveillance and Collecting Location Data in a Post-Carpenter World, Part II
This post is the second in a series examining the impact of Carpenter v. United States, 585 U.S. ___, 138 S.Ct 2206 (2018) on electronic surveillance and the obtaining of […]
News Roundup
WLOS reports that Henderson County Sheriff’s Deputy Ryan Hendrix died yesterday after being shot while responding to the scene of a car break-in where gunfire had been exchanged by the […]
News Roundup
Threads of the modern American experience that for months have been pulled with increasing tension came together as the fuse for an explosion of violence this week on the streets […]