North Carolina Criminal Law

This post summarizes the published criminal opinions from the Supreme Court of North Carolina released on November 4, 2022. This summary 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 August 19, 2022. This summary 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 April 16, 2021.

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This post summarizes opinions issued by the Supreme Court of North Carolina on June 5, 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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This post provides summaries of the opinions of the Supreme Court of North Carolina published on August 16, 2019.

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Last week, the state supreme court unanimously reversed State v. Turner, __ N.C. App. __, 793 S.E.2d 287 (2016), and held that any “any criminal pleading that establishes jurisdiction in […]

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Under the Crawford Confrontation Clause rule, testimonial statements by witnesses who aren’t subject to cross-examination at trial can’t be admitted unless the witness is unavailable and there has been a […]

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Two months ago, the North Carolina Supreme Court in State v. Saldierna, ___ N.C. ___, 794 S.E.2d (Dec. 21, 2016), reversed the North Carolina Court of Appeals, State v. Saldierna, […]

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The North Carolina Supreme Court in State v. Lowe (December 21, 2016) ruled that a search warrant validly authorized a search of a vehicle parked on the driveway of the […]

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