This post summarizes published decisions from the Fourth Circuit of interest to state practitioners from September, 2019.
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Case Summaries: 9/27/19 and 10/1/19
This post provides summaries of the published criminal opinions issued by the North Carolina Supreme Court on September 27, 2019, and the North Carolina Court of Appeals on October 1, 2019.
Case Summaries – N.C. Court of Appeals (9/17/2019)
This post provides summaries of the criminal cases (and one juvenile case) decided by the court of appeals on September 17, 2019.
Case Summaries—Court of Appeals (9/3/2019)
This post provides summaries of the opinions of the North Carolina Court of Appeals from September 3, 2019.
Case Summaries — North Carolina Court of Appeals
This post provides summaries of the opinions of the North Carolina Court of Appeals published on August 20, 2019.
Case Summaries – Supreme Court of North Carolina
This post provides summaries of the opinions of the Supreme Court of North Carolina published on August 16, 2019.
New Service: Fourth Circuit Case Summaries
Semi-retired faculty member Bob Farb has begun a new service that may be of interest to some readers. He is summarizing select published Fourth Circuit opinions. Generally, he will focus on criminal cases and civil cases that have a criminal law connection. For example, his first summary concerns Owens v. Baltimore City State’s Attorneys Office, ___ F.3d ___, 2014 WL 4723803 (4th Cir. Sept. 24, 2014), a civil case filed under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 alleging in part that law enforcement officers intentionally withheld exculpatory evidence in a murder case.