North Carolina Criminal Law

This post summarizes the published criminal opinions from the Supreme Court of North Carolina released on April 6, 2023. These summaries will be added to Smith’s Criminal Case Compendium, a […]

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This post summarizes the published criminal opinions from the Supreme Court of North Carolina released on December 16, 2022. These summaries will be added to Smith’s Criminal Case Compendium, a […]

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This post summarizes criminal decisions released by the Supreme Court of North Carolina on March 11, 2022.

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This post summarized published criminal and related decisions from the North Carolina Supreme Court released on February 11, 2022. These summaries will be added to the Criminal Case Compendium.

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This post summarizes opinions issued by the Supreme Court of North Carolina on August 14, 2020.

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This post summarizes published criminal decisions from the North Carolina Supreme Court decided on May 1, 2020.

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This post summarizes three opinions issued by the Supreme Court of North Carolina on November 1, 2019.

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Many readers will by now have heard the news: Chief Justice Martin is stepping down to become the Dean of the Regent School of Law, a Christian law school in […]

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Shortly before Christmas, the state supreme court decided a littering case captioned State v. Rankin, __ N.C. __, __ S.E.2d __, 2018 WL 6714931 (Dec. 21, 2018). The majority ruled […]

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On December 21, 2016, the North Carolina Supreme Court in State v. Allman upheld a magistrate’s finding of probable cause to search a home for drugs, and it reversed a […]

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