…restaurant while carrying a large bottle of liquor. Police officers traveled to the scene, where they saw an SUV registered to the defendant parked in the travel lane on the…
…but the Court did not foreclose future litigation. To the contrary, it left the door open to further challenges, and so did nothing to break up the litigation logjam that…
…opened the door. Only two or three minutes elapsed from the initial knock to the door’s opening. When the door opened, an officer immediately smelled unburned marijuana from inside the…
…wore a bandage on his arm. Both of the men were carrying “small, black bags” across their bodies. In the officer’s experience, those types of bags are often used to…
…Carolina’s district courts opened in 1966 in six districts and 23 counties, replacing what my former colleague Michael Crowell described in a recent State Bar Journal article as “a scramble…
…defendant was riding a bicycle and carrying an illegal firearm. Law enforcement officers located the defendant riding a bicycle on the same street named by the informant. The officers intercepted…
…Habitual impaired driving G.S. 20-138.7(a): Operating a motor vehicle while there is an open container of alcohol in the passenger area and while the driver is consuming or has consumed…
…open. After a brief discussion, defendant closed the door and fled in the vehicle, leading officers on a high-speed chase that ended in a crash. A search of defendant’s hotel…
…bias violated the defendant’s Sixth Amendment right to a fair trial. We may be opening ourselves up to accusations that we are seeking to extend our moment in the spotlight…
…test. The officer issued the defendant three citations, charging him with DWI, DWLR, expired tags, expired inspection, and an open container violation. (The citation charging DWI and DWLR was signed…
