North Carolina Criminal Law

Senate Bill 300 was an omnibus criminal justice reform bill passed last year. One of its provisions presumptively decriminalizes most violations of local ordinances. In this post, I’ll address some […]

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Think you can consult the North Carolina General Statutes to know everything that’s been made criminal in North Carolina? Think again. Under state law, counties, cities, towns, and metropolitan sewerage […]

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Have you ever been convicted of or pleaded nolo contendere (no contest) to any violation of the law other than minor traffic tickets? Millions of people, many of whom were […]

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Counting the number of sections in a chapter of the General Statutes is pretty dull work. But doing it over and over again in order to see the growth in […]

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