This post summarizes criminal and related decisions published by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in December, 2019. Decisions of interest to state practitioners will be posted on a monthly basis. Previous Fourth Circuit case summaries are available here.
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Case Summaries: N.C. Court of Appeals (Jan. 7, 2020)
This post summarizes published criminal opinions from the North Carolina Court of Appeals decided yesterday, Jan. 7, 2020.
Case Summaries – Court of Appeals (12/17/19)
This post summarizes opinions issued by the North Carolina Court of Appeals on December 17, 2019.
These summaries will be added to Smith’s Criminal Case Compendium, a free, searchable database of case annotations from 2008 to today.
Case Summaries—Court of Appeals (12/3/2019)
This post summarizes opinions issued by the North Carolina Court of Appeals on December 3, 2019. Appeal of district court’s denial of defendant’s motion to enter judgment on PJC was not properly before Court of Appeals State v. Doss, ___ N.C. App. ___, ___ S.E.2d ___ (Dec. 3, 2019) In 1999, the defendant was found … Read more
Case Summaries — N.C. Court of Appeals (11/19/2019)
This post summarizes opinions issued by the Court of Appeals of North Carolina on November 19, 2019. Trial court did not err in denying defendant’s motion to suppress evidence obtained from a search of the defendant’s purse when officer testified that the defendant voluntarily consented to the search, notwithstanding contradictory testimony from the defendant. State … Read more
Case Summaries – N.C. Court of Appeals (11/5/2019)
This post summarizes opinions issued by the Court of Appeals of North Carolina on November 5, 2019.
Case Summaries — Supreme Court of North Carolina (November 1, 2019)
This post summarizes three opinions issued by the Supreme Court of North Carolina on November 1, 2019.
Case Summaries–Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals (Oct. 2019)
This post summarizes published decisions from the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals that may be of interest to state criminal practitioners from October, 2019.
Case Summaries–Fourth Circuit Decisions (Sept. 2019)
This post summarizes published decisions from the Fourth Circuit of interest to state practitioners from September, 2019.
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.